New Olympics site: From the people who brought you B-R.com

http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/

My god. This is incredible.

You want to know who won the silver medal in the men's speed skating 5K at the 1932 Lake Placid Games? (<a href="http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1932/SSK/mens-5000-metres.html">Eddie Murphy</a>.)

You want to know who won Brazil's only gold medal in the 1984 Summer Games in L.A.? (<a href="http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/BRA/summer/1984/">Joaquim Cruz</a>.)

You want to find out every result for the Unified Team in 1992? (<a href="http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/EUN/">Click here</a>.)

You want to know who was my first Olympic crush? (<a href="http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/po/liliya-podkopaeva-1.html">Click here</a>.) 8)

 

Drool.

(Over the site, not your first Olympic crush.)

 

Coming soon: Bucky's vacation in which he finds the childhood home of Liliya Podkopaeva and writes 435,000 words about it for the Society of Olympic Research.

 

It's a little annoying that they spell the host city's name in the local language.

Leads to this as a page header:
"United States at the 1972 München Summer Games"

 

International Society of Olympic Historians. Get it right.

http://www.isoh.org

And did you know that Lilya Podkopaeva's birthplace was founded by a man named ... John Hughes? Eat my shorts, dickhead!

 

so THAT'S why he hasn't made a movie in more than 15 years!

 

I didn't know Eddie Murphy was that old.

 

That's because it's not strictly an American site and/or for an American audience. While Sean Forman's Sports Reference LLC is in charge of the development, I think most of the main contributors are from the aforementioned ISOH. Their style is to use local language where possible.

 

If David Wallechinsky wasn't involved, it can't be legit, right?