NEW DELHI: Google's spirit for London Olympics 2012 seems to be unending as it put up a new sport-centred doodle on its homepage on Saturday. As the Olympics kicks off with archery competition after the opening ceremony, Google has dedicated a doodle to the sport. The London 2012 archery is the second Google doodle in this week to show its enthusiasm towards Olympics. The doodle displays a female archer aiming at an archery board, where the target is Go'o'gle. The Olympic Archery competition at the London 2012 Summer Olympics is being held at Lord's Cricket Ground, which has long been seen as the home of cricket.
The search giant had tweeted, "Hooray for sports! Stay tuned over the next 16 days for all the #GoogleDoodle fun," thus hinting that there may be a doodle on all days on the Games.
From India, a team of 81 athletes, which comprises 6 archers, participated at the Olympics. The 6 Indian archers are: Rahul Banerjee, Tarundeep Rai, Jayanta Talukdar, L Bombayla Devi, Deepika Kumari and Chekrovolu Swuro.
On Friday, Google displayed a doodle depicting five athletes on track holding the letters of Google which also symbolises the logo of Olympics. The doodle features the sports football, basketball, swimming, fencing, running, and javelin throw.
The London Olympics 2012, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiadis, started on 27 July, 2012 and will end on August 12, 2012.
Resource:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/internet/London-Olympics-2012-Google-doodles-for-archery-competition/articleshow/15226012.cms
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