Olympics in Sochi? No Big Deal...

Well last week marked the beginning of the 22nd winter olympics being held in Sochi, Russia. Our athletes travelled across roughly 9 time zones (depends where they travelled from) to compete in this years olympics.

Sochi is 10 hours ahead of us so for this week's blog post I wanted to talk about how awesome it is for us to be able to get up to the second updates ANYWHERE YOU GO despite the huge time difference. In fact, with a simple twitter update this morning I was able to see that Charles Hamelin, a Canadian speed skater, won his first gold medal of these games in the 1500 m event. Canada has so much potential in these games and we have so many great athletes competing I actually find myself just skimming over the rest of my feed searching for the olympic updates. I use twitter to get all my updates because the updates are short so it makes going through my timeline so much easier.

They are many great twitter accounts to follow to stay up to date such as;

@CDNOlympicTeam
@TSN_Sports
@ABilodeau_ski (Alexander Bilodeau, Athlete)
@Speedskater01 (Charles Hamelin, Athlete)
@JayOnrait (Reporter, Hilarious)
@fs1otoole (Reporter, Also Hilarious)

It is also not just twitter that is great for staying up to date. I have seen updates on Facebook, various websites like www.tsn.ca and in fact, I used www.olympics.cbc.ca to air the opening ceremonies for a grade 6/7 class in their social studies class.

There are also many other apps to are able to give us the latest news and information. A simple search of "Olympics 2014" gives you a variety apps. The nice thing about it is that all you need is a smartphone, cell service and the swipe of a finger to get an update on all your favourite athletes.

Also here is a video to get all the hockey fans pumped up for some Olympic hockey!