Free Geeky Olympics tool

Former_MSE_Dan

Google has launched a special site to help Olympics fanatics get their fix. It features:

Geographically mapped out medals table
Full up-to-the-minute news
All daily Schedules and results
3D sketches of all the Olympics venues


Take a look at it here: http://www.google.com/landing/summergames2008/index.html#source=sgob

Plus to make sure it's absolutely impossible to miss a single second of the sporting bonanza, it's compatible with a lot of mobile phones too!

Enjoy, and let us know what you think!

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melancholly

i can't seem to set the time to the UK - it's all on beijing time. anyone else worked it out? it's late and it could just be me being a bit slow!

alison99_2

Mine is showing the correct time, so I don't know why yours isn't. maybe it'll be ok when you reopen the page.

BTW thanks Dan, excellent tool, bit of an Olympic freak myself so this is right up my street.

A.Jones

If you want to see pictures of the athletes, then go to the official site ...
http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GL/95A/GL0000000.shtml

... you can get the full medal table. If you click on the medal type, you see the winners, click on the names and you get to see a passport type photo of the athlete.

terf

The BBC have a similar nifty widget http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/monkey/7479984.stm

Firefly

Does anyone know how to change the time from Beijing time to BST? Now the athletics has started it would be really helpful.