Amazing resource debuts: an all-time Olympic database
Olympic historian Bill Mallon of North Carolina has unveiled a fantastic new reference — an Olympic database he calls OlyMAD. He detailed its genesis with this posting on the Track & Field News message board. More than 110,000 known Olympians are in the database, the site says. The only downside: You have to register to gain access. Bill writes: “Because we are still trying to limit access, you’ll have to contact me (bmallon@nc.rr.com) and request access via the URL, and a username and password which I’ll set up for you.” Of course, you can get U.S. Olympians’ info for free via the USOC’s search page. But I imagine that dozens of Riccione entrants from other countries will be in Bill’s database.
