Summer Olympic Games 2024 Website, Apps and Results System

[heywoodu 16,135]

ESPN has this, but it's far from complete yet. For tomorrow, for example:

https://www.espn.com/olympics/summer/2024/schedule/_/date/20240727

 

They forgot lots of qualifiers, early rounds in things like judo and so on, but do have a separate entry for every single tennis match (but not badminton)  

 

Surely an improvement, but the search continues for something good.

 

Edit: BBC seems to be much more complete, and somewhere in between the official one and ESPN in terms of the amount of space they use. Not great, not terrible.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/paris-2024/schedule/2024-07-27

Edited July 26, 2024 by heywoodu

[Vektor 3,326]

The official site is so severly lackluster that they aren't even listing the start time of each invidiual heat. I mean, why do I have to look up a pdf document to see when a rowing heat starts, why can't they also list that on the webpage of the heats? 

[Faramir 454]

38 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Edit: BBC seems to be much more complete, and somewhere in between the official one and ESPN in terms of the amount of space they use. Not great, not terrible.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/paris-2024/schedule/2024-07-27

yes, now they only have to learn that in tennis, fencing, judo, etc. you need to name the athlete and not only the country to understand who is playing

Spoiler

 

Edited July 26, 2024 by Faramir

[heywoodu 16,135]

28 minutes ago, Faramir said:

yes, now they only have to learn that in tennis, fencing, judo, etc. you need to name the athlete and not only the country to understand who is playing

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Yeah, this I just never understood  

 

I see it on the forum here sometimes as well, things like this for an individual sport:

 

"Quarter finals will be 

 

 vs

 vs

 vs

 vs  

"

 

Just name the athletes, it's about them  

[Federer91 3,077]

The results system and live timing on the official site work perfectly so far. Just as i watch the event and 20-30 second after it finishes the results and times are updated on the site.  Let's see if it will be the same, when we get 20 simultaneous sports.

[heywoodu 16,135]

The official schedule keeps being annoying, meanwhile. Every time you switch to a different sport, of which you want to see just today's schedule, it goes to whatever is the first day for that sport. And select 'all sports', it goes all the way up the 24 July and you have to scroll down. Ugh.

 

Every year they manage to make things more user unfriendly  

[heywoodu 16,135]

Oh, just realized now, Ctrl + F to at least search for a certain sport basically doesn't work  

 

What a frustrating start of the Olympics  

[Federer91 3,077]

I like that the live events are being shown in red and the the completed matches are collapsed. What i don't like is that it doesn't show the completed events as "finished" on the main schedule. Just add the word finished on the bubble, so i know, that event is done..

[vinipereira 3,462]

Anyone else having problems with the official app?

[Faramir 454]

yes, the app doesn't work well, I just use the website