2008 Olympic Medal Count

Keeping up with the latest 2008 Olympic Medal Count can be a daunting task once you're back in the office on Monday morning. It's even a task in the early going of the Olympics. With the expanded coverage, you've got to take a food or bathroom break sometime and that's usually when Bob Costas is giving the medal results between events. If you have convenient access to the Internet from your favorite easy chair you can check the 2008 Olympic medal results on your time schedule - not the TV's. Just use these handy links to keep up with the latest Olympic medal count.

2008 Olympic Medal Count - Clickable Map

Real Clear Sports has an interesting listing of 2008 olympic results if you like an interactive visual accounting of countries and medals. This group of map, graph and table is an excellent way to educate children who are interested in the Olympic games. There's a world map that highlights the countries with participants who've won medals. You can zoom in for a closer look at the map or simply hover over each country to receive a listing of Olympic results and medal count for each country. Clicking on the country will open a small window that you can close when you have finished reading the Olympic medal count. This will be handy as the Olympic medal count grows.

Just below this map is a graph of 2008 Olympic medals by country with each country listed that has won a medal so far. This bar graph cleverly illustrates Olympic results with the gold, silver and bronze medals colors.

If you like your 2008 Olympic results in plain, vanilla packaging keep scrolling down the Real Clear Sports web page for a simple listing of each country and its medal results.

2008 Olympic Results - Real Time Numbers

Wikipedia is keeping a real time listing of the 2008 Olympic medal count. According to the Wikipedia entry, this information is coming from the International Olympic Committee. I didn't take the time to double check the accuracy with other sites but it is still early in the Olympics as I write this article and the Wikipedia's medal count looks reasonably accurate to me. An added benefit: you can sort the results by country, by type of medal, and by overall total and rank.

If you get bored with all of this 2008 Olympic info, scroll down to compare the 2008 Olympic results with the results of the 2004 Olympic games. You can also compare medal results for 2008 with any previous Summer Olympic game results, for that matter. This should keep you busy for a few hours (or a few days) and get you through the few times that NBC isn't covering a sport that holds your interest.

Overall 2008 Olympic Medal Standings - Straight From the Source

Get your Olympic medal results straight from the official web site of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. A little more colorful than the Wikipedia site, this site includes links to today's Olympic medals winners, as well as multiple Olympic medals winners for the 2008 Olympic games. Both of those tables were being updated and were unavailable when I tried them. I hope you have better success. However, I still liked this site and wanted to include it. Those tables I couldn't reach will probably be much easier to view at a different time of day or during the week instead of a Sunday afternoon when I was reviewing them. At the bottom of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics web site medal results page are links to the latest news and to photos of the 2008 Olympic games.

Overall, the official web site of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics has a medal results page that is easy to read and the latest news and photos links at the bottom are a welcome bonus to following along with the medal count.

Olympic Medal Results - Where To Go For More Info

Like more stats and Olympic info? Compare the 2008 Olympic results with the 2004 Olympic medal count. You can find the links for the 2004 Olympic Results here.

Who are some of the oldest participants in the 2008 Olympic Games? Many of these participants were making news long before the 2008 Olympics began and some of these, such as Dara Torres, have already won their first medal. Read up on them here.

Looking for a 2008 Olympics TV Schedule or a media guide? Check this link.

Sources:

Real Clear Sports, Olympic Medal Count, realclearsports.com
Wikipedia, 2008 Summer Olympics Medal Count, wikipedia.com
2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, Results Beijing 2008, en.beijing2008.cn