This includes the Commentator Information System delivering real-time competition results and athlete information and Intranet INFO2008 providing information to media, athletes, judges, coaches and sponsors via 900 on-site kiosks.

INF02008
At the heart of Information Diffusion System is INFO2008, an Intranet that is available to accredited media and the Olympic Family of athletes and IOC officials. For the Beijing Games, all 200,000 members of the Olympic Family will have access to the information on the system.

For the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, a Wireless INFO service will be available for the first time in the Olympic Games. This service will allow all the journalists to navigate through the INFO2008 from their own laptop via a wireless network.

Commentator Information System (CIS)
With around four billion people watching the Olympic Games on television, getting results to broadcasters across the world is vital. Commentator Information System (CIS) is a Java-based application that displays results on touch-screen PCs at the venue broadcast sites in a fraction of a second, so they can be instantaneously dispatched across the globe. It provides event results to broadcasters before they hear the roar of the crowd. ‘Colour’ for the commentary is provided by sport-specific screens.

For the Beijing 2008 Games, 8 new sports will benefit from CIS system: shooting, fencing, weightlifting, cycling BMX, modern pentathlon, taekwando, beach volleyball and archery.

Internet Data Feed (IDF)
Results data distributed to the official website, broadcasters and other internet customers. IDF contains all the results and real-time data from both INFO and the Commentator Information System.

Results Data Feed
The Results Data Feed provides competition data in a specific format for the World News Press Agencies including Reuters, AFP, Kyodo, AP, PA and SID.

Print Distribution
A centralised database feeds event data and results to Games web sites, world press agencies, Internet data feeds and the Olympic Games officials.