The Internet and the Olympics are a perfect match.  Real-time coverage, particularly when the Games took place in such far-away time zones as Sydney, Beijing and Nagano, was a huge boon to sports sites like ESPN.com and CBS SportsLine, and “official” sites quickly improved in quality and depth of features.

Though on a smaller scale than in 2008, NBCOlympics.com has plenty of info, features, video and photos to keep even the most ardent Olympics fan busy.  And for West Coast TV viewers, who are getting some of the action on tape delay, the real-time results are a must.

One cool feature is a series of photomosaics on the photos page, which combine hundreds of individual photographs to make larger images.  I like how you can drill down to view the tile photos, most of which have information about the image.

The first nine photomosaics, which feature five sports (snowboarding, figure skating, bobsled, alpine skiing, speed skating) and four more generic images, are made from previous Olympic photos.  The final three will be created using 2010 Vancouver Games stills.

Mosaic Legends, the group that put the photomosaics together, have mostly done images of musicians like Elton John, Eric Clapton and Bono, but have announced that it will be releasing a Muhammad Ali soon as part of its push into sports.