It would be great to watch the Olympic Games online from the beginning to the end. Just imagine, you sit at your computer and can watch a direct transmission of the games. I wish it would be possible to choose online any kind of sport, of course, according to the Olympic Games program. Certainly, the attempts of broadcasting the games via the Internet have been made. But the International Olympic Committee has no desire to lose money because of the net. Both the winter Olympic Games of this year in Torino and the summer Olympics in Sydney had no proper coverage on the Net. The matter is not in the imperfection of online-video technologies but in the International Olympic Committee policy which has strictly limited the web-translations of the Games. The goal is to protect the megabuck contracts with the TV companies broadcasting from Salt Lake City.
The Internet as a high tech is a highly reliable, and what is more important, universal communication system which is driving the