After five years we are finally going to witness another showmanship of skills and talents in the Olympic Games that will officially commence on August 8, 2008. Lucky are those who can get to witness the sports event live in Beijing, China. For us who cannot go there, we can only be content by watching live telecast on TV. But if you don’t have much time to sit down and watch TV, you can always browse through YouTube. 77 countries all over Asia, Africa and the Middle East will be able to view the clips on the Beijing, Olympics. According to the announcement by the International Olympic Committee on Monday, clips can be viewed at the YouTube channel youtube.combeijing2008 starting August 6.

Through the said channel, we can already view the highlights, videos of the games as well as news clips. The clips that to be shown on YouTube will be produced by the Olympic Broadcasting Services, so unauthorized videos will be pulled out by YouTube management and Google. This will be accomplished using the latest VideoID technology.

In the U.S. only NBC has the right to broadcast the Olympics events. The company will also provide 2000 hours of live content on the Web. In order to bring quality content online, NBC went into partnership with giant Microsoft.