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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
  • goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    7·
    4 months ago

    didn’t rely on a horse to do their work

    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.