• 18 - number of days of competition – Aug. 6-7 and 9-24.
• 302 - medal events
• 10,708 - athletes taking part
• 21,600 - media accredited to the Games
• 2,924 - judges and referees
• 70,000 - Olympic Games volunteers
• 91,000 - seats in the “Bird’s Nest” stadium
• 31 - venues in Beijing
• 6 - venues outside Beijing (Hong Kong, Qingdao, Tianjin, Shenyang, Shanghai, Qinhuangdao)
• 7,000,000 - tickets sold
• 5,000 yuan - ticket for opening ceremony ($661.4)
• 30 yuan - ticket for softball preliminaries ($3.97)
• 137,000 km - distance covered by pre-Games torch relay
• 24.9 Celsius - average temperature in Beijing in August
• 159.7 mm - average rainfall in Beijing in August

Reuters is putting out a ton of stats and factbox material as well as scores of stories per day. If you haven’t already, please check out our Olympics Website here.

NOTE: This post was updated with new information at 0837 GMT on August 8.