Is Googlebot visiting results.beijing2008.cn ceaselessly?

Question

Now the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is ongoing, Google presents a link to the changing Olympic medal count on the homepage. The medal count information comes from results.beijing2008.cn. If Googlebot doesn't keep visiting this website, how can it provide us real-time information about the Olympic medal count? If Googlebot keep visiting this website constantly, is it a heavy burden on the website?

Answer 1

No Google does not have to crawl any site to obtain the realtime results from the Olympics.

Realtime results are provided to the media by the Olympic News Service (ONS) http://en.beijing2008.cn/media/ons/ and results feeds are available to the World News Press Agencies including Google via feeds from INF02008 http://www.atosorigin.com/en-us/olympic_...