Great Olympians

Sources

• The excellent 'Complete book of the Summer Olympics' by David Wallechinsky, Sydney 2000 Edition
• Bill Mallon & Ture Widlund - The 1896 Olympic Games, Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
• Bill Mallon - The 1900 Olympic Games, Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
• sporting facts and some anecdotes from 'Die Olympische Spiele von 1896 bis 1980', Volker Kluge, Berlin - in dutch translation
• A CD-rom by the same authors, based on that same source
• Olympic Games 1896-1972, Endre Kahlich, László Papp, Zoltán Subert
• Olympic Facts & Feats, Stan Greenberg, London 1996, and an earlier dutch translation of the same.
• An excellent Web-site on the Winter Olympics
• some biographies from 'The Olympic Games' edited by Lord Killanin & John Rodda, Rainbird Reference Books, London 1976
• other biographies from 'the Oxford companion to sports and games', Oxford 1975
• Many birthdates and other data from Quid, 1995
• Athletics stories from 'The Olympians, a quest for gold : triumphs, heroes and legends', Sebastian Coe and Nicholas Mason, London, 1984
• An excellent web-site devoted to the Athina Olympic Games
• Many a fact about recent great Olympians have been contributed by Udo Seyfarth of Dresden. Thanks and Auf Wiederschreiben Udo.
• Stepas Misiunas went through the site with a minute comb and found many small and some big errors.
• Keszthelyi Andras went through the list of Hungarian names and corrected some spelling mistakes.
• Jim Tracy also caught a lot of errors (well, just a dozen, but I'm a perfectionist)
• Dimitri Tyskens (also from Flanders) caught even more omissions.  Bedankt, Dimitri.

Written July 1996 - May 1997 - last adapted 2001-01-21