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Numbers are bulging out all over at the Olympic Games.

The Olympic games are all about numbers. How fast, how much, how far, how good, are all expressed by numerals; scores, ranks, placement, finishing times, qualifying times, Olympic berths, number of metals won . . . a shear mass of numbers will be invading your dreams come July.

Until then, and in light of the amount of Analyticals reading this blog, I thought I’d throw out some Olympic numbers for you to feed your jones:

Number of athletes and officials at the 2000 Sydney Games: 16,100
Number of athletes and officials at the 2000 Sydney Games treated for sexually transmitted diseases: 47

Number of openly gay Olympic Gold medalists at 2008 Beijing Games: 1
Number of openly gay Olympians at 2008 Beijing Games: 11
Estimated Number of closeted Olympians at 2008 Beijing Games: 1,048
Number of openly gay Olympic Gold medalists at 2008 Beijing Games acknowledged as being gay in NBC coverage: 0
Estimated number of gay men who fell in love with Matthew Mitcham during the 2008 Beijing Games: 400,000,000

Average penis size of nation participating in the Olympic Games with best built men: 7.1 inches.
Number of Olympic medals won by the Democratic Republic of the Congo: 0
Average penis size of nation participating in the Olympic Games with least gifted men: 3.8 inches.
Number of Olympic medals won by South Korea: 246

Size and medal count often don’t add up.

How long an Olympic boxing match lasts: 11 minutes (including one-minute intervals between each round.)
How long South Korea’s Byun Jong-il sat in the ring in protest after losing at the 1988 Seoul Games: 67 minutes. (Then they turned the lights off.)

Number of applicants for tickets to the men’s 100m final at the 2012 London Games: 1,300,000
Number of seats available in the arena the race will be run in: 80,000

Number of credit card companies accepted for ticket purchase for 2012 London Games: 1 (Visa)
Number of invalid credit cards used for ticket purchases due to card expiration date glitch: 10,000,000

Average ticket purchase cost on credit card for the Closing Ceremony at the 2012 London Games: $3,166
Cost with interest if only minimum balance is paid monthly: $7,623

Number of cyber attacks daily at the 2008 Beijing Games: 12,000,000
Number of police scheduled to work the 2012 London Games: 15,000

Number of dollars British Petroleum (BP) paid for sponsorship for the 2012 London Games: 58,000,000
Number of people killed by BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: 11

If only paying the minimum on their credit card used to purchase tickets for the 2012 London Games, visitors will not pay off the balance until 2032.

Number of vehicles allowed onto Olympic sites at the 2012 London Games (the first car-free Olympics): 0
Number of chauffeur-driven cars for dignitaries, officials and corporate sponsors allowed onto London Games Olympic sites by the Olympic Committee: 3,000.

Height of the 2012 London Games Giant Olympic Countdown Clock: 21 feet
Weight of the 2012 London Games Giant Olympic Countdown Clock: 4 tons
Length of the 2012 London Games Giant Olympic Countdown Clock: 16 feet
Efforts to assemble the 2012 London Games Giant Olympic Countdown Clock: 10 people working 2 days
Number of days it worked before breaking down: 1

Number of events at the 2008 Beijing Games: 298
Number of events at the 2012 London Games: 300

Temperature during the men’s 100m finals at the 2000 Sydney Games 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit
Expected temperature the day of the men’s 100m finals at the 2012 London Games: 71 degrees Fahrenheit

Number of calories per day allowed per athlete at the 1948 London Games: 5,467
Number of rationed calories per citizen in London in 1948: 2,600
Number of calories in a Super-Sized Big Mac Deal: 1,170
Average Number of calories consumed daily per person in the U.S.: 3,770

Number of nations participating in the 1948 London Games: 59
Number of nations expected to participate in the 2012 London Games: 205

Number of reasons required to post photo of four time gold medalist Greg Louganis: 0

Number of venues built for the 1948 London Games: 0
Number of buildings demolished to build the Stratford Olympic Park for the 2012 London Games: Over 200.

Number of Chinese performers at the Opening Games of the 2008 Beijing Olympics: 15,000
Number of performers hired for the Opening Games of the 2012 London Olympics: 10,000
Number of ethnic Chinese hired for the Opening Games of the 2012 London Olympics: 0

Number of participating nations that have never won a medal at the Olympics: 80
Number of times Monaco has competed at the Olympics and not won a medal: 26

Number of Gold Medals won by the U.S. at the Summer Games: 929
Number of Gold Medals won by Great Britain at the Summer Games: 207
Number of Gold Medals won by Australia at the Summer Games: 131
Number of Gold Medals won by Canada at the Summer Games: 58
Number of Gold Medals won by Thailand at the Summer Games: 7

Number of Gold Medals up for grabs at the 2012 London Olympics: 499
Number of countries to have won at least 1 Gold Medal at every Summer Game: 1 (Great Britain)

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