Olympics 84

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OLYMPIAN FEATS Believe it or not, there really are people who sit around waiting in breathless anticipation of the next Olympic Games. And if you are one, then have we got news for you! Because now, not only will there be hours and hours of it on the telly, but you can also gen up on all the statistics with the help of your Speccy. Storm Software has brought out a double cassette Olympics 84 package to coincide with this summer's goings-on in Los Angeles. It contains a computer database of Olympic results, facts and figures, including all medal winners from 1896 to 1980 - by country and with all their winning scores. This means your average sportsnut will be able to examine all the results... by year, individual sport or event, by Gold, Silver or Bronze medal winner or by any combination of the above. There's also a History option which illustrates how the results in an event have improved over the years, and it encourages males to commit chauvinistic suicide by allowing one to compare the relative performances of women against men. So, if you think that Coe, Ovett and Cram are set to excel, then perhaps you'd like to take a look at when Great Britain last won three Olympic gold medals in middle distance running or even when it won three gold medals in any athletics event. With this package, all is possible. Included with the two cassettes is a booklet which gives an amusing anecdotal account of the world's most famous 'shamateur' games event - from 1896 in Athens through to Moscow 1980. And a further bonus is that with the input cassette you can add the names, nationalities and times of all the 1984 medal winners and compare them with those of 1980 and 1976. For more words on this enterprising package, contact Storm Software on [redacted].

Historical results are compared by year and number of men and women. Other comparisons can be made by country and winning scores. This also makes it easy to see how results have improve over the years.