Follow the 2012 London Games with Google

Richard Kilty, Marketing Manager, Google UK



Tomorrow more than half of the world's population — about 4.8 billion people — will be watching the opening ceremony of the London Olympics. Especially for sports fans, we created a microsite google.com/olympics , which contains the latest news, competition results and other important information.



More information

Want to know when will the next competition with the participation of the Russian team? Missed the performance of our athlete? Here are some simple ways to quickly get the hottest news:

• Starting from July 27, the opening day of the Games, for such requests as [London 2012], [Russian team] or [archery], you will receive relevant, accurate to the minute, detailed information right in the search results. There you will also find the competition schedule, the number of medals won and the Olympic records set. These features are available on both PCs and mobile devices.
• In the section of the most popular search queries about the Olympic Games, you can see which topics, events and sportsmen from the world most often searched for by sports fans. Data will be updated every hour. By clicking on a specific search query, users will be able to explore related news.
• A collection of useful applications for Android mobile devices is also available on Google Play.

Get closer to teams and your favorite athletes.

Everyone will be able to receive the latest news from the Games - fans of first-rate stars, and fans of participants who are not included in the list of favorites:

• Read the most current entries on the Olympic page + .
• Tell your friends who you support for, by properly creating the cover of your Google+ account (or other social network).

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Discover london

If you are not a resident of London, this does not mean that you cannot see all the sights of the city online, for example:

• View the Olympic Park from a bird's eye view, explore the bike and marathon routes or take a virtual walk through London sights using Google Earth.
• To compare aerial photographs of London in the forties of the 20th century (the Games were last held in 1948 by the British capital) with pictures of the modern city.

Follow current events and recall the most interesting moments of the past Games.

Millions of people will not be able to come to London, but they have the opportunity to see the Games on YouTube:

• For viewers from 64 countries of the world, including from Russia, the International Olympic Committee will broadcast the competitions and events of the Games live on its YouTube channel.
• Those who can not wait for the opening ceremony or want to remember the best moments of the last 29 Olympics, can also watch them on YouTube . For example, a video with Derek Redmond finishing 400 meters at the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992 , recording performances by Katie Freeman, winning a gold medal at the Games in the 400 meters in Sydney in 2000 , and a video of the first Olympic champion from Afghanistan , received a medal in Beijing four years ago.

Follow www.google.com/olympics and join millions of sports fans around the world!