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So what if you couldn’t make it to Beijing in time for the Olympics? There’s always EarthgamZ’s great mashup, where you can liven-up the Olympian in you. Checkout the placemarks set up on GoogleEarth, for locating athletes’ hometowns and training cities. These also link to their official profiles and schedules of their events, giving you an up-close encounter with just a click here and a scroll there.
Once you’re hooked up with the Google Earth plugin, or if you have one already – you’re surfing the pin-pointed, tinniest of details through EarthgamZ’s views on world sports.
Options such as focusing on, and browsing by country and sport with the pop-up menus is an additional attraction to this neat online app. For an Olympics fan, this is the perfect way to catch a bird’s eye view or the overall. As far as the rest of you are concerned, there’s also a wide range of (other) sports to choose from.
It is highly rated; for starters Shawn Johnson, the gold medalist for balance beam, has her placemark right in Des Moines. So what are you waiting for? Click away…!
