Beijing Olympics 2008

The 2008 Summer Olympic in China are underway so it is time to have a few links to follow the sporting action. But first some great Olympics-related interactive graphics are available from the New York Times, such as a bubble chart on the medals awarded at every modern summer Olympics (click on the bubbles).

Now for some links:

• The official web site of the Beijing 2008 Games
• Television New Zealand's Olympics pages
• NZ Herald's Olympics pages
• stuff.co.nz Olympics pages
  
• NBC Olympics
• Yahoo!7 Olympics pages from Australia
  
• BBC Sport's Olympics pages
• International Olympic Committee
  

With more and more people turning to the web for their news and entertainment I am expecting great things from creative web designers.

As for the aviation connection, on 18 July 2008 Air New Zealand started operating non-stop services from Auckland to Beijing.