5 months left for Winter Olympics 2014. Seven sports, 1300 medals and three mascots are just some numbers of the next games taking place in Sochi of Russia. Have a look back at some quirky facts from Winter Olympics history.

Today, Brazil represents one of the fastest and most up and coming economies in the world. Brazil is about to host the World Cup and the Summer Olympics in the next couple years. These two events will significantly change its infrastructure.This infographic depicts how far Brazil has come economically and where they will be going.

These constructions are some of the most elaborated, inspired and costly setups built to host olympic events around history since 776 BC.

What are the resources needed to run a super Olympiad? What are the critical points and the extent of activity that should be considered by the hosting country on managing such a glorious event? Read the numbers that refer to 4 latest Olympic games.

See the facebook and twitter peaks during the Olympics 2012 opening ceremony broadcast.

Hosting the Summer Olympic Games is a great honor and challenge as well for any city. Read some comparison facts about the business background of the games starting with the Atlanta Olympics 1996.

A retrospective study over the technological evolution and athletic performance in swimming.

Some social insights based on data from the official US Olympic Team page and the Olympic Games page on Facebook.

A nifty infographic perfectly adapted to the olympic sports spirit that shows the preformance and records of popular brands’ social media marketing activity compared with the ones 4 years back.

SponsorHub attempts to rank the Olympians according to their commercial value for brands. That means that they measure their social influence together with their records to give out the classic top 3. See who wins.

Predictions over London 2012 Olympic watchers’ behaviour. Who will be watching the events, what they will share on social media, what devices will they use?

See remarkable figures in regards to Heathrow traffic management on the tick of the 2012 Olympiad opening.

The hard race of official Olympic sponsors to win the gold metal in viral content performance generating smashing social buzz. It’s a true race – enjoy till the finish.

Here is illustrated the social activity and mobile usage boom comparing statistics of 2 olympiad periods, one of Beijing 2008 and the present London 2012

The start and finish of the olympic sports throughout the history of the games on a simple timeline. Some have a long living while some others happened just for one olympiad.