From Wednesday, two days before the opening ceremony, through Saturday, the first full day of competition, traffic has steadily built on various sports and official Olympic sites, with NBC and Yahoo emerging as clear early leaders. According to Nielsen, NBCOlympics.com -- which besides offering up-to-the-minute results and highlights will stream more than 2,200 hours of live competition through the course of the Games' 17 days -- drew more than 4 million unique users Saturday. That's up from the 2.7 million users who logged in the previous day and less than 1 million that did so that Wednesday. Yahoo's Olympics site, which does not offer any live footage, pulled in a solid 3.3 million unique users Saturday, bringing it within 684,000 users of NBC's traffic and 2 million more than the third-place finisher, AOL Olympics, which saw more than 1 million users log in that day. Other prominent sports news sites have enjoyed traffic spikes as a result of early interest in the Games but not in the neighborhood of NBC, Yahoo and AOL's Olympic sites. Perhaps surprisingly, ESPN.com reached just 343,000 uniques on Saturday, up just 100,000 from the previous day. Sports Illustrated's Olympics site yielded 112,000 users on Saturday, up from 45,000 on the day of the opening ceremony. Both sports category leaders were beaten by the New York Times' Olympics site, which pulled in 466,000 users during the first day of competition.
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