From Google Maps to gold medal

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Armstrong wins Gold with a little help from the Interweb
Published 8/27/2008 by California Correspondent at Sports Crackle Pop
... In a totally novel geeky use of technology, Kristin Armstrong, the US Olympic Gold Medalist in the women’s cycling time trial, says that in training for the Olympics, she rode the bike course in Beijing with a GPS and uploaded that data to Google Earth in order to find a similar route to train on back home in Boise, Idaho. ...

Google Earth Helped The United States Win A Gold Medal
Published 8/28/2008 by HG at YOU BEEN BLINDED
... One United States Olympian is giving Google Earth credit for her gold medal performance in Beijing. Cyclist Kristin Armstrong took one of her husband’s GPS units with her to Beijing in December to get an elevation profile of the Time Trial course. The decision paid off. From Kristin Armstrong’s guest post at Google Lat-Long: After returning home to Boise, Idaho, I exported the GPS data to several different formats, one of which I was able to launch with Google Earth. I was then able to trace the entire course from the ...