Unfortunately for me, the 2008 Summer Games are firing up just as my workload has gotten pretty intense. That means I'm already far behind on medal winners, upsets and "you should have seen it" moments.

So I've had to squeeze my Olympic coverage out of friends and occasional news browsing, which tends to be 99% Michael Phelps-related.

Giving up on actually keeping track of the games, I decided instead to focus my limited time on finding and following Olympians who are blogging about their experiences.

That's how I found out about the "Voices of the Olympic Games" project by electronics manufacturer Lenovo. One hundred athletes were given a Lenovo computer and Flip camera in hopes they would blog about the games.

While you probably won't find a lot of superstars on the roster, the final result is an impressive cross-section of Olympic life.

It's so vastly different from the slick, overly produced newscasts, you quickly start to find yourself enamored with relatively obscure athletes who are training and competing relentlessly without much hope of landing in the