Happy Olympics Day, everyone! The rosters are set, and The Original Fantasy Olympics league is ready.
As competition begins, here is a roundup of some ways to track the games and your atheletes:
* The great Beijing Olympics FAN! has a live blog of the lighting ceremony, and many other on-the-ground updates you can't get anywhere else.
* Deadspin has their own Olympics channel and Beijing bureau.
* CBSSports.com has dedicated coverage and headlines that can help you manage your roster.
* A small upstart company, "Google," has their own Olympics gaget through iGoogle. I really hope that site catches on.
* If you're on Twitter.com--and you should be--follow http://twitter.com/beijingolympic and http://twitter.com/NBCOlympics for real-time updates.
* There's always the Bejing Olympic Games Official Website: http://en.beijing2008.cn/video/
* The official medal results are at NBC 2008 Summer Games website, and we'll be posting them in the divisions, as well.
* Here's a report on what it's like to watch the Opening Ceremony in Japanese.
* We are using this site as a resource for daily score keeping. (Note: participants on a relay team receive a medal even if they do not compete in the final, and even if ESPN includes them, they will not be listed as part of our results.)
Any other tools or websites you like? Post links in the comments, won't you?
Friday, August 08, 2008
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Great job with all the links. Should be a fun 16 days. NBCOlympics.com also has an online game -- click Games link on the homepage, you'll find it. Five athletes each day.
Cool Olympic schedule tracker from New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/05/sports/olympics/2008_OLYMPICS_TRACKER.html
CBC's web site is awesome...live video coverage of every event, streamed over the net.
http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/
CBC site must only be for Canada because when I got to load the live video, it says not available in your area. That's okay, NBC is doing 3600 hours online & over-the-air, you can get four video streams at once from their website.
@ Derek
OK, I'm Canadian, so that must be why it works for me. I guess it's fair game, since I wasn't able to pick up any US Olympic Swim Trials coverage on NBC a month or so ago!
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