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This chart shows the number of athletes participating in the 2024 Paris Olympics (y-axis) of each age (x-axis) at the time of the Paris 2024 Olympic opening ceremony.
The chart shows a histogram of a positively-skewed distribution, with a modal value of 24. Annotations on the graph point out interesting facts.
- The youngest athlete is 11
- The median age is 26
- 90% of Athletes are between the ages of 19 and 36
- 99% of Athletes are between the ages of 16 and 47
- The oldest athlete is 69
The youngest was Chinese skateboarder Zheng Haohao at 11 years and 11 months.
The oldest shown in this diagram is a little misleading. From what I can tell, he was a reserve member of the Australian Dressage team. The oldest athlete who actually competed was Spain’s Juan Antonio Jimenez Cobo at 65. Also in dressage.
The oldest who didn’t rely on a horse to do their work was Luxembourgish table tennis player Ni Xialian, at 61.
This has conjured up the image of a solo athlete storming the dressage arena, sans mount, shouting “I don’t need no stinkin’ horse to help me win!”
Or Ni Xialian desperately trying to serve a ping-pong ball from horseback. I’m not sure which is worse.
Maybe Ni puts the paddle in the horse’s mouth?