Here’s some of what the WaPo team put together for the London Olympics:
The definition of perfection
I designed this piece about how gymnastics scoring worked. Wilson Andrews developed it and edited/animated the videos, and Bonnie Berkowitz did the writing.
Profiles in Speed
This six-part series we developed in the run-up to the Olympics featured greats like Missy Franklin, Michael Phelps and Carmelita Jeter. Videos, infographics, and awesome articles. I especially love the segment on technology.
Are you over the hill for Olympic sports?
As part of the Profiles in Speed series, I developed this graphic which lets you see where you fit into the Olympic age spectrum. Flowing Data wrote about it here.
Olympians
This beautiful piece by Sisi Wei, Ted Mellnik and Todd Lindeman came out during the Olympics and vastly expanded the data from the previous age graphic.
Dressed for a world record
Another great piece built by Wilson Andrews, showing patterns in world record swimming events:
London Eyes
This is a fun piece featuring socialcam content, built by summer intern Katie Park:
Keeping time at the Olympic pool
Sohail Al-Jamea and Alberto Cuadra worked with a script by Bonnie Berkowitz to create this fun explanation of how timing works in swimming and track events: