In the wake of this summer's Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, the Daily takes a look at the "jumbo" role Tufts has played in this - and previous-Olympiads.
4 Tufts alumni that were members of the 2004 Summer U.S. Olympic team (Jennifer Toomey-track and field, Mark Mendelblatt-sailing, Jen Provan-sailing, and Peter Wylde-equestrian)
1 Tufts alumni that medaled (Wylde, with a silver in Equestrian Team Jumping)
1:59.64 Toomey's time in the women's 800 meters, her personal best
4th How she placed in the final
2 Times Tufts' Assistant Director of Athletics, Branwen Smith-King, attended the Summer Olympics (once as a competitor, once as a manager)
15 Smith-King's age when she competed in track and field for Bermuda in 1972
24 Years before she returned to the Olympics (in 1996, she was a Bermuda Olympic track team manager)
1956 Year in which Clarence Houston (after whom Tufts' Houston Hall is named) traveled to the Games in Australia as a member of the Olympic Committee
2 Years for which Houston was the national president of the NCAA (1955-1957)
54 Countries Fletcher economics professor Michael W. Klein included in a recent study that found a link between gender equity in the workplace and female success in competitive sports
5 How many more medals "women from a country ranked in the top quarter of workplace equality" won than women from "a country at the bottom quarter" in the 2000 Summer Olympics, according to Klein's data
203 million Americans who watched NBC's Athens coverage, the biggest TV audience for a non-American-held Olympics
1,200 Hours of Olympic programming broadcast by NBC
47 Age of Fletcher School graduate Costas Karamanlis, current Greek Prime Minister (and the youngest individual ever to hold that position)
1992 Year in which the Tufts European Center in Talloires served as the U.S. Olympic Committee's central administrative office
The information cited above comes from Tufts Magazine, Perseus Project, the Tufts Journal, Tufts University-Office of the President, USA Track & Field, Yahoo Sports, and the Hollywood Reporter.
