#Rio2016: 7 more data stories and interactives from the Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are a good opportunity for publishers to experiment with storytelling, in a bid to make their coverage stand out.

The trove of data available about the Games, the athletes and the participating nations can tell many stories, and news organisations have been hard at work preparing interactives and visualisations ahead of the Games.

Last Friday, Journalism.co.uk took a look at seven data visualisations and interactives published during the first week of the Olympics, offering explainers about current events and results as well as historical context to the Games.

Here are seven more great data stories and interactives we found over the past week:

How Britain won gold and set a new world record in Olympics team pursuit – The Guardian

The Guardian's Carlo Zapponi and Feilding Cage produced an "as it happened" visualisation of the men's team pursuit, showing the UK catching up with Australia's track cycling team and winning gold.

This is Team GB's third gold medal at the event, setting a new world record in the process.

Accompanying the visualisation of the cycling track is a medal table for the men's team pursuit, showing that Italy's team is historically the most successful in this event, with seven gold medals.

Anatomy of an athlete – The Age

Australian news outlet The Age set out to explain the anatomy behind several sports and the strength required of the athletes to complete the events.

In a series of interactives, The Age shows frame by frame photos of its Olympic athletes completing a long jump, javelin throw and tumbling.

Slide the bar at the bottom to progress through each element, and choose your view: integumentary system, muscular system or skeletal system.

Usain Bolt and the fastest men in the world since 1896 – on the same track – The New York Times

The New York Times put all the medallists of the men's 100m dash since 1896 on the same track, comparing their speeds, highlighting how the time it took to complete the race went down by around three seconds since the first event.

The visualisations show there are few repeat winners at this event, and that the United States dominates with nearly half of the medallists on the virtual track representing the US.

The track features three different Usain Bolts – from Beijing, London and Rio. Can you guess which one won the race overall?

Every country's fastest man in one race / Every country's fastest woman in one race – Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times has created a pair of visualisations comparing the average speeds of each country's fastest man, and in a separate feature, each country's fastest woman for the 100m dash.

The men's 100m dash visualisation compares the fastest runners from Asian countries, for example, and highlights that when Bolt crosses the finish line, the second fastest runner featured, from the US, is a metre behind.

How Usain Bolt made history with his third 100m gold medal victory – The Guardian

In a similar interactive to the track cycling one featured above, The Guardian created an "as it happened" visualisation of the men's 100m dash.

It also compares this year's race to previous results since the 1896 Olympics.

Bolt made history in Rio as the first man to win three gold medals for this event.

How Usain Bolt came from behind again to win gold – The New York Times

In this feature, NYT's Joe Ward and Jeremy White analysed how Usain Bolt dashed past his competitors to win the race, despite a slow start caused by his longer reaction time.

Bold had the second longest reaction time in the race, but caught up with silver medallist Justin Gatlin.

Scroll down to see the runners' positions throughout the race and before the finish line.

On your marks – The Financial Times

The FT's "On your marks" is testing your reaction time at the start of a race.

It allows you to experience the start of the 100m dash, swimming, and track cycling, and compares your time to the athletes taking part in the events.

Careful to avoid a false start!

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