Last week we looked at where and when the Olympics happened for each olympiad since 1896. This week, our data mob is about at athletes.

Here’s a view of Olympic Participating Countries and their athletes. Your task is to find one with no athletes listed, or very few listed, and fix that.

Bernard Lagat has competed for both Kenya and the USA in the Olympics

Here’s what to do:

• Click on the country name
• Scroll down to the Olympics stuff near the bottom of the page
• Next to “Athletes”, click on the little arrow
• Choose “import list”
• Find a list of athletes for that country — Wikipedia can usually help, with pages like Olympic Athletes of Argentina or Olympic gold medalists for Australia.
• Paste the list (you might need to clean it up a bit)
• Run through the reconciler, adding new entries if necessary
• Add your chosen country to the list of Mobbed Topics so we know you’ve done it
• You’re done!

Of course, if you happen to be a fan of a particular athlete, you can always start at the Olympic athlete type, add yours, then fill in details about their olympic participation.

We’ll be stepping up the pace of Olympics data mobs to fill in as much as possible before the Beijing Games start, so expect another data mob later this week!