Swimming on the web

Swimming Schedule and Results in Beijing

Wading through the event and coverage schedules can be tedious and confusing so here is the official schedule, down to the minute, when the various swimming events are taking place:

http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/Schedule/SW.shtml

Along with the start time and starting list for each heat of each event there are links to the results.

There are no guarantees that these events will be shown live on your television channel of choice of course, but it's better than only knowing that there will be some coverage of swimming sometime between 7pm and midnight!

The times are in Beijing's time zone which is 12 hours ahead of Eastern Time here in Canada so an event starting at 10am Sunday morning in Beijing will start at 10pm Saturday night in Toronto or Montreal. You can do the math for your time zone or use this converter:

worldtimeserver.com China time converter

Canadian swimmers have already broken some Canadian records! Go Canadians!

Posted at 05:30PM Aug 09, 2008 by Lindsay in Olympics  |  Comments[0]

Olympic Medal Count History

Here's an interesting presentation of the number of medals per country for all the past Olympics:

Olympic Medal Count History

You can use the slider at the top to move back and forth through the Olympic years and see how each country's medal counts went up or down.

Each country is represented by a circle whose size is proportionate to the number of medals they won and you can mouse over a country to get the number of gold, silver and bronze medals.

You can also chose to either have the circles placed according to where the country appears on a map of the world or in rows ordered from highest to lowest medal count.

Give it a look, it's more interesting than I make it sound describing it in text. One of the better uses of animated graphics I've seen.

Posted at 12:49PM Aug 06, 2008 by Lindsay in Olympics  |  Comments[0]