Visualising 2012 Olympians vs Historic Olympians

The New York Times is doing a series of visualisations of current Olympians compared with their historic counterparts.

So far there are three sets available, the 100m freestyle (swimming), 100m sprint and the long jump.

The visualisations use historic data and make it come to life so even those of us who aren’t that interested in the Olympics learn something.

If you’ve got 5 minutes to spare you won’t regret it!