Are we getting faster, stronger, fitter?
Using MS Excel design a spreadsheet to graph and compare the winning times (Gold Medal) of the following sports for the following Olympic games.
| Athens 1896 | Paris 1900 | Stockholm 1912 | Paris 1924 |
| Berlin 1936 | Melbourne 1956 | Mexico City 1968 | Montreal 1976 |
| Seoul 1988 | Atlanta 1996 | Sydney 2000 | Athens 2004 |
Using the Internet research the times / distances of the following events.
Have a look at the following database. http://www.databaseolympics.com/
- Men's and Women's Swimming
- 100m Freestyle
- 400m Freestyle
- 200m Breaststroke
- 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay
- Men's and Women's Track and Field
- Shot Put
- Long Jump
- 100m
- 400m
- 1500m Run
- 4 x 100m Relay
- Long Jump
- High Jump
- Men's Weight Lifting
- Heaviest Weight Classification
- Men's Marathon
Statistician Questions
The role of the statistician is to:
- Find trends of Olympics times throughout modern history
- Chart and graph times in the modern Olympic Games.
- Summarize the charts and Graphs.
- Find any relation between countries, events and medals won.
- Find the Mean, Median, Mode and Range of the winning times in
each of the events listed
By using these results , can you predict the winning times, distances, and weights at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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