The Olympic Games come along every 2 years. One rotation sees the summer games, the other the winter games. Each has it’s own unique attributes and associations, but given that a number of us are based in one of the greatest skiing countries on Earth (Austria), we tend to be a bit more preferential to the winter games.
In our quest to keep tabs on which country is leading the medal count, we’re constantly checking the latest news coming out of Vancouver, and bustling home each night to catch the day’s coverage on TV. But who’s playing who, and which race has heats, quarter-finals, semifinals, …. finals? With so many events happening, sometimes simultaneously, it can all get a bit overwhelming.
Trying to keep track of multiple events, all at different times, as well as having a precise overview of who’s leading and where, sounds a whole lot like just about every professional’s daily schedule.
With this in mind, we decided to keep track of the Vancouver Olympic Games 2010 in a familiar format: a mind map.
MindMeister Vancouver 2010 Schedule and Results
We created the map a few weeks back with data provided by the Vancouver Organizing Committee and update it on a daily basis. Initially, the map started out tracking only the events, but as the requests for results as well as medal counts have started arriving, we’re now including this information as well.
So whether you’re tracking Apolo Ohno’s quest to become the most medaled American winter athlete (one more to go, as he tied Bonnie Blair’s record 6 medals a few days ago), or want to catch Benjamin Raich and Romed Baumann tear down the mountain, you’ll never miss a beat with our Vancouver 2010 schedule and events mind map.
Now if we could just get the IOC to consider mind mapping as an official discipline….