To cite the olympicAthletes package in publications, please cite the package and its two upstream data sources:

Ismay C (2026). olympicAthletes: Olympic Athlete Event Data, Athens 1896 to Milano-Cortina 2026. R package version 0.5.10, https://moderndive.github.io/olympicAthletes/.

Griffin R (2018). “Olympic history: longitudinal data scraped from sports-reference.com.” https://github.com/rgriff23/Olympic_history.

OlyMADMen (2026). “Olympedia.” https://www.olympedia.org/.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {{olympicAthletes}: Olympic Athlete Event Data, Athens 1896
      to Milano-Cortina 2026},
    author = {Chester Ismay},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 0.5.10},
    url = {https://moderndive.github.io/olympicAthletes/},
  }

  @Misc{,
    title = {Olympic history: longitudinal data scraped from
      sports-reference.com},
    author = {Randi Griffin},
    year = {2018},
    url = {https://github.com/rgriff23/Olympic_history},
  }

  @Misc{,
    title = {Olympedia},
    author = {{OlyMADMen}},
    year = {2026},
    url = {https://www.olympedia.org/},
  }