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Ok, so I'm going to park the whole real time thing for now. It's pretty close, which counts in hand grenades, atom bombs and virtual track simulators.
I think the next steps are automating generation of the athletes. So this will mean getting a database of names tied to each country. I have some ideas about how to do this. I'm thinking I'll have a database for types of names, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Nordic, Arabic, Slavic, African, Asian, Indian and draw from there based on the percentages from the country? Maybe that's a bit crazy? I was kinda hoping to webscrape the database for each country from sports-reference.com/olympics. But I think it violates their terms of use. Maybe I could slow webscrape it? I'm not sure.
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