Brushing all political ramblings concerning upcoming Olympic Games, technology is doing its bit to make Olympics experience better than before. Now you can track Olympic Torch relay online using Google Maps.
From March 24th until the start of August, the Torch Relay will travel across Greece, into Beijing, and then around the world through cities, oceans, and even the world’s highest mountain, Mt. Qomolangma (Mt. Everest).
Following the tradition to ignite the torch at Olympia, Greece and then carrying out torch relay to spread the Olympic spirit and message of peace and friendship, and also ignite the passion of the people around the world.
Besides checking out the progress of Olympics torch relay from one country to another, you can also embed same on your website with an embeddable API code and even customize it to match your page. [Track Torch Relay]
Microsoft isn’t far behind as you will be made to install Microsoft Silverlight on your computer to able to watch online Olympics coverage, forget Adobe Flash!