{"id":2735,"date":"2016-08-12T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:37","slug":"inspired-by-the-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/08\/12\/inspired-by-the-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspired by the Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Get some facts and figures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Which <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2016\/aug\/04\/finland-tops-podium-for-most-olympic-medals-won-per-capita\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">country has won the most medals per capita since 1908<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">? (Guardian datablog)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Olympic Studies centre has some <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/stillmed.olympic.org\/AssetsDocs\/OSC%20Section\/pdf\/Olympic_Summer_Games_Mascots_from_Munich_1972_to_Rio_2016%20_Reference%20_Document.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">photos of amazing summer games mascots from 1972-2016<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">. It also includes reference lists of publications relating to them!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Take a virtual look inside the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.googleblog.com\/2016\/08\/google-maps-goes-for-win-with-rio.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">stadiums with Google Maps.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> Their blog also describes how they are mapping Rio for visitors, including using local <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afroreggae.org\/blog\/ta-no-mapa-conclui-etapa-e-tira-favelas-da-zona-oeste-da-invisibilidade-digital\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">NGO group\u00a0 Afroreggae to help with favelas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">C<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">elebrate the oneness of all Olympic Athletes w<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">ith the great \u00a0Maya Angelou\u2019s\u00a0Human Family poem<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode\/maya-angelou-s-human-family\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode\/maya-angelou-s-human-family\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allpoetry.com\/Human-Family\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">https:\/\/allpoetry.com\/Human-Family<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get some facts and figures. Which country has won the most medals per capita since 1908? (Guardian datablog) Olympic Studies centre has some photos of amazing summer games mascots from 1972-2016. It also includes reference lists of publications relating to them! Take a virtual look inside the stadiums with Google Maps. Their blog also describes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[357,84],"class_list":["post-2735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-sociology","tag-olympics","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2736,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions\/2736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}