See Moments Missed in the 2008 Olympics
- Posted August 14th, 2008 at 9:30 am by Yahoo! Search
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The opening ceremony has come and gone and the 2008 Summer Olympics are well underway. Every day moments of achievement, defeat and disappointment are captured and if you’re lucky, you witness them first hand. If you’re not so lucky, don’t fret, Yahoo! Image Search has just rolled out a new image carousel to make finding those history-making moments easier.
Now when you do a search on Yahoo! Image Search for Olympics-related content, you will see a carousel of some of the freshest, most comprehensive photos from Yahoo! Sports coverage of the Olympics. The carousel images will appear above the regular search results, with arrows in the right hand corner to make toggling through the images easy. So, if you want to peruse images of Michael Phelps as he makes Olympics history or view photos of Yang Wei, who just brought home the gold medal for China in Men’s Gymnastics, here’s what you’ll see:
Accessing the photo carousel is simple. To get the latest of Olympics photos, search ‘Olympics‘ and you might get a glimpse of the intensity between Brazil and Latvia in the women’s basketball games or catch the concentration at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Park. You can also hone in on more specific photos. Try a search for a particular athlete, i.e. ‘Roger Federer‘ or your sport of preference, like ‘Olympics diving.’ And, to get photos of a featured event, search it in conjunction with Olympics, like ‘Olympics opening ceremony.’
And don’t forget the Yahoo! Shortcuts for Olympics-related information. To get a real-time snapshot of what’s going on at this year’s games, try one of the following:
- Olympics Medal Count: To get a quick overview of the ranking in this year’s games, simply search ‘medal count.’ And, if you’re more interested in your team, just add your country before the search, ‘USA medal count‘
- Game Updates: For a first-hand look at who’s leading a specific game, do a quick search like ‘Olympics swimming‘
- Athlete Stats: To learn the latest on a specific athlete, search their name and Olympics. Tough to keep up on how your favorite Indian American gymnast is doing? Search ‘Raj Bhavsar Olympics‘
- Olympics Results: For a real-time overview of the games, search ‘Olympics results‘
- Olympics Schedule: To keep up with what’s when, search ‘Olympics schedule‘
Give ‘em a try and enjoy the games. Happy Olympics!
Yahoo! Search Blog team
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We have noticed the freshness of the Olympics images.
Now, the next frontier is to accomplish the same for the Olympics news videos.
can’t get enough of the olympics, goes so late though.
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Thanks yahoo!
Beijing’s Olympics 2008 is about to start. No doubt it’s going to be a wonderful event with lot of fun and many new records. Now when it’s going to start every one is excited. News Channels, media, newspapers every where we found lot of stuff about Beijing’s Olympics 2008 every very one is appreciating the arrangements made in Beijing Olympics. But is that so?
A few months back every one was criticizing about the Olympics in China. Some news channels report that china is doing human rights violations, some reported that pollution in china is not dangerous for the health of players and to add in it some said that china is not a safe country to held Olympics. Why we heard all this propaganda?
No, doubt there are political and economic reasons behind this, the countries who don’t like china to progress helped that kind of propaganda. But there is some thing else involved in it and it’s our ego. We hate the people of third world countries and do not want them to come forward and face us. We think they are illiterate, ill mannered and pessimist. We have done this against the Muslims first and now we are doing that against the Chinese. Our media force us to do so but we are also responsible for that.
Games are for enjoyment, health and peace but now it’s became our habit of our leaders show politics in every event. Now when Olympics games are going to start lets hope for lot of fun. See the matches and encourage our teams.
That was a pretty cool event, the pictures are just great. I can’t wait for the next ones in canada, hopefully we’ll watch the opening ceremony again with the family cooking great dishes and enjoying the event!