Hello all !
I'm not part of this team, but here's a suggestion.
Private User has been so good to schedule Pierre de Coubertin as the Profile of the Day on July 27, the day of the opening ceremony.
I don't know about Amanda's schedule for those weeks, but I just feel that we should have "Olympic profiles" for every day during the Olympics.
I bet this was on your mind? :-)
I think one way to do this, is by looking at the major sports events on every day (after all, some events dominate over the others, every day). For each of those events/days, we could drill down to the historical winners of those events (weirdly, Mark Spitz comes to my mind :-) ).
But, ideally, we should be able to have a nice tree for those profiles, of course. Perhaps we also have to look at ancient times, and some of the memorable sports figures of the early days of the Olympics like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynisca the first woman to win an Olympic event. Or, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_of_Croton, the most famous wrestler of those days. Perhaps too far back in history for relevance in the tree. So, let's try to find those incredible winners of the Olympics, modern times? Like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Owens.
Just a thought :-)
