Vancouver Winter Olympics Online Coverage

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Can’t get to a TV to watch the Winter Olympics? Online, there are some websites that are doing a great job of covering the Olympics with up-to-the-minute coverage and organized information. These sites have designed their pages for great user interactivity and have the most up-to-date feeds. I will go through each site and let you know, which one has unique information that the others do not have.

The first one seems the most obvious, but you would be surprised how many people do not know there is a dedicated site for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. This site is a page rank 8 with a user-friendly design. The medal table section is above the fold and you are able to copy the code in case you would like to embed it in an email or a blog. There is a latest news section and a latest videos section, but the best thing about this site is the navigation at the top of the page that is organized by the name of each Winter Olympic Sport. This is great because you can easily see all the different sports and go into the one you are interested in. Each page has further detailed information about the sport and even ...
... weather information on for the location the sport is taking place.

Then we have the NBC Olympics site. This site is a page rank 7 and has tons of videos and slideshows, which seems to be the focal point of their page. Like other sites I posted here, they include a medal chart section, a live blog, and results. What stood out the most about this site was the focus on the US and some Canadian Olympic Athletes. Go down below the fold and check the athletes’ profile section. When you click on the athlete, you can see a bio, get connected to their Twitter accounts and see special coverage of them as well as photo albums and stories. I also like the Olympic Pulse feature that shows tweets of the athletes who are updating their Twitter during the Olympic Games.

Yahoo Sports has a decent page in their sports section for the Winter Olympics that has Olympic headlines, a sports blog where you can communicate with other sports fanatics, and videos of event coverage. On the Olympic homepage you can see a chart of the overall Medal Count with an easy to follow format. If you scroll down the page, you will see a chart that is updated with the latest medals. The name of the winner of the medal is displayed and clickable allowing you to view stats and a current medal count for the athlete that won the medal.

Alright everyone, that is my coverage of the best websites to get your Winter Olympic fix; hope it helps. If you know of any other good sites, please feel free to post here. If you visited these sites or are currently using one for your Olympics coverage information, let me know your likes and dislikes. Go USA!