Watch Olympics: Web & Mobile
Categories: Featured, Web Tools, Websites
Written By: Vardaan
With Olympics games at Beijing just start off there are plenty of sources online where they are providing really good info and live footage, updates of every sports going to held in Beijing, China. Lets take a brief snapshots of few good and big players keeping tab on this summer games at Beijing.
CCTV.com:
The official Internet and Mobile broadcaster of Olympics 2008, is providing Beijing events’ Live videos, Photos and News updates through it International version (English) here - http://intl.2008.cctv.com. Olympics enthusiast can also get information of flights, tickets, schedules and Hotel reservations along with putting tab on the event through video reports.
Noticeably CCTV is China’s largest TV network and providing complete content of all of the things that have something to do with Beijing Olympics 2008 and complete portal on the the event at Beijing.
MSN/ NBCOlympics
NBCOlympics.com is MSN’s 2008 summer Olympics website, the website serves 24×7 Olympics module complete with the latest news, live medal counts, statistics and videos, though it more for US audience with news, videos exclusive for US Atheletes and sports persons there at Beijing. Mobile version - http://mobile.nbcolympics.com
YouTube Channel - Beijing 2008
The YouTube Beijing 2008 is the Official IOC Content on YouTube provided by Olympic Broadcasting Services. One can watch a wide selection of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games clips. The channel on YouTube seems like sub-portal of IOC Beijing Videos with more navigation options at - youtube.com/beijing2008 like youtube.com/newsbeijing or youtube.com/imagesoftheday and more on game based URLs. Although there were rumors that Beijing Olympics 2008 will be restricted to put on YouTube as channel.
Digg.com/Olympics
Get all the interesting stuffs, news and stories of Olympics event and celebrities at Digg.com/Olympics section and you could also land up on a weird or interesting Olympics stuff that will give you break of serious Olympics news.
Interestingly thanks to just announced Mobile version of Digg, one can also get interesting stuff on their mobile devices via - m.digg.com/olympics.
Although I heard of Mobile broadcast of Olympics 2008 that has been under CCTV.com (above) officially but I couldn’t find one, If any one of you know, do let me know via comments, alternatively digg is only interesting tool on Mobile devices when it comes to Olympics content viewing (only interesting stuffs).
Olympic Specific Search:
Google - Search : Olympics Medals and you will get stats of medal tally of that searched country along with its flag also one also have quick at any game at Olympics by just firing a query - Olympics e.g. Swimming Olympics.

MSN/ Live.com : Search - “Medals for ” you will get quick stats info of that country performance in getting medals, better than Google, try - “Medals for USA”.
One can make queries such as - include an athlete’s name or “Olympic medals,” or medals for and/or e.g., “Medals for India” or “India medals for Shooting.” This Olympics targeted search queries can be made at both Live Search site or NBCOlympics.com or MSN Home page.




















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