XVIII Olympic Winter Games, Nagano 1998
http://wwwus.nagano.olympic.org/home_e.html
US Olympic PBS Cyberschool [Javascript]
http://www.ibm.pbscyberschool.org/
CBS TV Winter Olympics Site
http://www.winterolympics.com/
CNNSI
http://www.cnnsi.com/olympics/events/1998/nagano/
PointCast Winter Olympic Coverage
http://www.pointcast.com/events/wintergames_home.html

The 18th Winter Olympic Games will be held at Nagano, Japan from February 7
to February 22, 1998, and these five sites will help interested Internauts
enhance their enjoyment of the proceedings. The first site is the official
site of the Games. Provided by the Nagano Olympic Organizing Committee and
International Business Machines (IBM), it contains useful information about
tickets, venues and schedules. It also offers good descriptions, including
explanations of the technical details of each sport. Visitors to Nagano
will find information about the city and the surrounding areas. There is
also a kid's section that provides a child-friendly description of each
event, and a collection of pictures and stories from children around from
the world. US Olympic PBS Cyberschool is provided by the PBS & CBS TV
networks, IBM, and the US Olympic Committee. This site demonstrates that
the Olympics can be a vehicle for K-12 education; students are encouraged
to create their own web sites to use skiing, skating, and snowboarding to
learn mathematical and scientific principles. Note that web pages created
at this site must be created with an interactive IBM tool after
registration and the site requires Javascript. CBS TV is the American
network broadcasting the games and its site is highlighted by feature
stories about each sport, a schedule of events, rules, and brief individual
profiles. CNNSI (discussed in the July 18, 1997 Scout Report) provides
feature stories, all time and year-by-year medal counts, brief event
explanations, "who to watch," and a special _Sports Illustrated_ feature on
the history of the Winter Olympics. Finally, the PointCast Network
(discussed in the February 16, 1996 Scout Report), is providing a special
Winter Olympics channel for those that want their news pushed to them.
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