Athens 1906 Medals

The 1906 Intercalated Games, happened in Athens, Greece, as an international multi-sport event proposed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to be held between regular Olympic Games. Despite lacking official recognition from the IOC, these Games introduced several innovations, including separate opening and closing ceremonies, an Olympic Village, and athletes marching behind national flags. Notable achievements included Ray Ewry's eight gold medals and Paul Pilgrim's double win. The event featured 854 athletes from 20 countries competing in 78 events across 14 disciplines, with France leading the medal count. Despite initial success, subsequent attempts to continue the Intercalated Games faced challenges, leading to their abandonment. However, the influence of the 1906 Games persisted in shaping future Olympic traditions and reigniting interest in the Olympics, contributing to the continuity of the modern Olympic Movement.

This dataset has exactly the same structure as the olympic medals one, and comes from the same place: Olympedia.

The data is in Tidy format, that is, each row is an observation, an an observation is a medal.

This means:

• In most cases, there is a Gold, a Silver and a Bronze medal, for the same event, which means 3 distinct lines.
• Sometimes more than one medal of the same find is awarded for the same event (usually 2 bronzes or 2 golds).
• Some events lack certain medals (for example 2 golds but no silver).

The original data comes from Olympedia but it's been transformed.

The parsing and transformation of the original data is described here: https://www.kaggle.com/code/ericnarro/create-olympic-medals-dataset