Monday, August 23, 2004
Athens Olympics edition
Hello good morning and welcome to Cybersurf, your weekly window on web matters, I am your Cyberhost Steven Lang and after a weekend of incredible sporting achievements, one cannot ignore some sporting sites.
I think Saturday’s victory in the tri-nations cup deserves a web site all on its own – what a fantastic win – but the real big story of last week and next week has been and is the Olympic games in Athens.
As one would expect, the IOC has set up a massive, detailed web site for the occasion. You can find the official site at www.athens2004.org and there are at least a gazillion other Olympic related sites in every nook and cranny of the Internet.
The official site is comprehensive if nothing else. It has absolutely every schedule of every event of the two week games. It also has all times and results of all the events. It has a great photos sections and the news department on the front page is excellent, but not always quite as up to date as one would hope. Perhaps that is a bit uncharitable, but after the fifty metre mens’ free style race there seemed to be a long delay in getting the results up.
On the sabcnews.com web site there is a dedicated category featuring stories about the Olympics – you can find the section at the following address: www.sabcnews.com/sport/olympics.
This section focuses firstly on the performances South African competitors and secondly on other African athletes. Who will ever forget the absolutely magnificent performance of Kenenisa Bekele as he imperiously powered his way to victory in the men’s ten thousand metre track event?
SABC sport – which can be found at www.sabcsport.co.za has a dedicated Olympics portal attached to its site. You can click on a button on the right hand side of the page to go to the portal site or you can type in the following address:
http://athens2004.sabc.co.za/portal/site.
The site is useful if you want a particularly South African spin on the Olympics – there are photos of South African competitors and a section that I particularly liked called Trackside Comment. SABC sports reporter Eben Jansen send his own personal observations directly from Athens.
Of great practical value is the broadcast schedule section that tells you when each Olympic event will be broadcast on either SABC Radio or SABC TV.
As all Olympics sites, the SABC sport offereing also has a medals table.
If you missed any of the addresses I read out, never fear, I will put this entire script on the internet at http://www.cybersurf.blogspot.com – one more time: http://www.cybersurf.blogspot.com
And that wraps up the Athens Olympics edition of Cybersurf – thanks for listening – tune in again next Monday morning same time and same place and remember to keep on surfing
I think Saturday’s victory in the tri-nations cup deserves a web site all on its own – what a fantastic win – but the real big story of last week and next week has been and is the Olympic games in Athens.
As one would expect, the IOC has set up a massive, detailed web site for the occasion. You can find the official site at www.athens2004.org and there are at least a gazillion other Olympic related sites in every nook and cranny of the Internet.
The official site is comprehensive if nothing else. It has absolutely every schedule of every event of the two week games. It also has all times and results of all the events. It has a great photos sections and the news department on the front page is excellent, but not always quite as up to date as one would hope. Perhaps that is a bit uncharitable, but after the fifty metre mens’ free style race there seemed to be a long delay in getting the results up.
On the sabcnews.com web site there is a dedicated category featuring stories about the Olympics – you can find the section at the following address: www.sabcnews.com/sport/olympics.
This section focuses firstly on the performances South African competitors and secondly on other African athletes. Who will ever forget the absolutely magnificent performance of Kenenisa Bekele as he imperiously powered his way to victory in the men’s ten thousand metre track event?
SABC sport – which can be found at www.sabcsport.co.za has a dedicated Olympics portal attached to its site. You can click on a button on the right hand side of the page to go to the portal site or you can type in the following address:
http://athens2004.sabc.co.za/portal/site.
The site is useful if you want a particularly South African spin on the Olympics – there are photos of South African competitors and a section that I particularly liked called Trackside Comment. SABC sports reporter Eben Jansen send his own personal observations directly from Athens.
Of great practical value is the broadcast schedule section that tells you when each Olympic event will be broadcast on either SABC Radio or SABC TV.
As all Olympics sites, the SABC sport offereing also has a medals table.
If you missed any of the addresses I read out, never fear, I will put this entire script on the internet at http://www.cybersurf.blogspot.com – one more time: http://www.cybersurf.blogspot.com
And that wraps up the Athens Olympics edition of Cybersurf – thanks for listening – tune in again next Monday morning same time and same place and remember to keep on surfing
