About the book: 2004 / Athletics is wrestling on tracks and in sectors. But these are also numbers - meters, minutes, seconds. For a true athletics fan, these numbers say a lot. Just like the names of the heroes of the Olympic competitions, among whom there are many legendary ones. It should be recalled that for Olympic champions (unlike, for example, world champions) the prefix “ex” is not used; an Olympic champion is forever. On the pages of this reference book, the sophisticated reader will find them all if desired. The main source of information for the compiler was the Internet, primarily the eSport website. Olympic Encyclopedia. For this truly titanic work, we express our sincere admiration and gratitude to the creators of the site. But relatively few people in our country have the opportunity to leisurely surf the Internet. On the eve of the Olympics, perhaps many have a desire to refresh their memory of the pages of Olympic history. Therefore, let's hope that the Internet pages transferred to paper will find their readers. The directory contains, in addition to the direct results of all Olympics (the first six medalists in each type of program), many interesting facts: who won the largest number of Olympics, which champions were the youngest and which were older, well, and much more.