Boulder company creates virtual Olympic gateway

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    A one-stop virtual gateway to the 2010 Winter Olympics — including bios, medals won and hometowns of all the U.S. Olympians — is now online at www.olympicsin3D.com.

    Boulder-based EarthvisionZ created the site.

    Fly through the city of Vancouver, see Olympic event centers, zoom down the slopes on Whistler and Cypress Mountain race courses and learn more about the competing athletes from around the world.

    Designed for both Vancouver visitors as well as the millions of Olympics followers around the globe, users can check on event times, current weather and search results by athlete or country. Tourists in the Vancouver area can look up restaurants, bars or the nearest coffee shop as well as access regional transportation, hotel information, and, most relevant to travelers by car — the International Border Station wait times.

    With a few clicks at www.olympics3D.com, users can track Facebook and Twitter feeds of individual athletes from their online biographies; follow the instant, live search of social media discussions about the Olympics from the Boulder-based OneRiot search engine; and even access television schedules for the entire Games.

    EarthvisionZ has created similar sports and tourism information sites for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, Sports Illustrated’s Top 100 Golf Courses You Can Play and its own EarthgamZ site, where the company is currently aggregating a variety of world sports on a virtual Earth.

    The sport playgrounds combine the geospatial imagery of Google Earth with the company’s patented search capabilities to assemble athlete stats and profiles, game schedules, venues, sports news, medal counts, tickets and much more on a single Web site.