This includes the Commentator Information System delivering real-time competition results and athlete information and Intranet INFO2010 providing information to media, athletes, judges, coaches and sponsors via on-site kiosks.

INF02010
At the heart of Information Diffusion System is INFO2010, an Intranet that is available to accredited media and the Olympic Family of athletes and IOC officials. For the Vancouver Winter Games, all members of the Olympic Family will have access to the information on the system.

For the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, a Wireless INFO service was available for the first time in the Olympic Games. This service allowed 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. ‘Color’ for the commentary is provided by sport-specific screens.

Atos Origin introduced the Remote Commentator Information System for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. This new service enabled commentators to access competition results from the studios in their home countries in a fraction of a second via touch screen PCs. It also provided background information on the athletes and sports to help them add color to their commentaries.

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 centralized database feeds event data and results to Games web sites, world press agencies, Internet data feeds and the Olympic Games officials.