Here is a really cool way to keep track of the medal count in the 2008 Beijing Olympics:
http://live.idashboards.com/beijing2008/?guestuser=guest
The daily updated Olympic medal dashboard provides a summary of the day’s athletic results and an interactive world map highlights participating countries and corresponding medal tallies. The dashboards’ unique hover-and-click capabilities enable fans to drill down through each country’s results by sporting event and individual athlete performance. An additional dashboard provides even greater detail and the ability to compare results from across the globe with the help of graphic bar charts, speedometers, gauges, interactive country flags and medals.
Like I said, it’s pretty cool!
Cool interactive map!
I have found a nice widget that displays the result for both total medal count and gold medal count.
In addition this widget can visualize the medal tally from different perspectives:
1: medal count per million dollar GDP
2: medal count per million inhabitants
I think you might like it:
http://www.clearspring.com/widgets/48abc6bc903b61d0
It’s cool and simple to embed
james,
That is kind of interesting…
Thanks,
George