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Virtual Olympics?

The 2008 Beijing Olympics official starts tomorrow, August 8. While not many of us would be able to physically be part of the Olympics, we could at least vicariously live the experience by watching the coverage on TV. That is, of course, if you have money to pay. Then again, there is another alternative – at least for video game lovers.

Reuters writes about it:

Sega has rolled out the official video game of the 2008 events in Beijing for PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and mobile phones.

It offers 38 events from track and field to swimming to judo and has online play for the first time in an Olympics game.

Every four years, a different publisher tackles the Summer Games.

Sega enlisted U.S. gold medal contenders Amanda Beard, Tyson Gay, Nastia Liukin and Reese Hoffa for the cover of “Beijing 2008: The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games.”
It turns out these Olympians are also gamers.

“I was so excited to be on the cover,” said Beard, a seven-time Olympic medallist. “To be with these other athletes who are on the cover with me, now I can cheer and watch them at the Olympics and then go home and play the video game.”

I have to admit that I have never been really enticed by the idea of a video game which is just like the Olympics. Still, the idea of having real Olympians as part of the video game is pretty neat. I have not had a try at this new video game but who knows, it just might be fun?

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