Olympic Dreaming
With the Vancouver 2010 winter Olympic games off to a start its been hard to not think about them from time to time as a Canadian. Now this post is based around an idea I had about the medals and is based on the slight information I have about them so if anything I say is wrong please set the record straight.
From what I now each medal is unique in that they each have a different part of a larger piece of art work engraved on each one. As far as I know each one is unique and there are no repeats but again not entirely sure. But lets just assume (cause that’s always a good idea) that they are. It was while thinking about this interesting concept that I had an interesting idea that could of been done. They should of taken a digital copy of the full piece(s) of art work, placed it online, and plotted out where each medal sits in this piece, and as they are won information about the athlete who won it could be linked to it. The individual medal locations could start out slightly grayed out and then when it is won come into full color so that as the games are in progress people would know at first glance which had been won. When a user mouses over a won medal the name of the athlete and country they are from would show up. Then when clicked it could go to a page with information about what sport the athlete was in, the time, or score, etc that they posted to win the medal, and maybe a bio.
I just thought that it was such an interesting and creative idea that they came up with to have each medal unique, and very disappointing that they did not run with it a little more. Imagine how cool it would be as an athlete to be able to go online and see where your “piece” fit into the bigger picture, how they could share this with the people they know. How cool it would be for any sports fan to be able to go and look through at all the different medal winners in a way they could not before. If an Olympics in the future decides to do something similar with their medals maybe they could look into this idea.
Just my opinion…
