Judging by the Graphics

There are so many sports in the Olympic Games with so many different rules that unless you know how they work it is difficult to catch on. Interactive graphics are a very useful way to understand what is being judged. Prior to the competition, they help you learn the rules and the complexity of some of them.

One of the best examples of this is Prisacom graphics (a common effort of ElPais.es, As.com, and Cadenaser.com). The graphics explaining the technique that is required in main sports are very clean and self-explanatory. For example, once the competition was over, online animations demonstrated how Dutch swimmer P.V.D. Hoogenband won his gold medal and why the Deferr’s jump deserved first place.