About the Project
Achieving 1.6 million page impressions on story pages alone, the Olympics Live Action Feeds module was the most popular of all the Olympics related projects built by the BBC World Service team during this year's games.
The design of the module would adapt to either a single- or double-column layout to allow for editorial freedom.
The module comprised of five main components:
- Coming up – Displayed the time until the next five events, highlighting any which were under 15 minutes.
- Latest gold medalists – A progress bar showed the total number of gold medals won; and on hovering over the white circle, a popup box displayed the name, country and event of the latest gold medalist.
- Medal table – Displayed the medals won by the top five countries.
- In detail – A personalised medal table showing a select list of countries selected by that language service.
- Full medal table – A medal table containing all the countries who had won medals.
