Applications to enjoy sports in Windows 8

In the Windows Store you can find applications that allow you to enjoy our favorite sports A new dimension is thus opened, through the Modern UI interface of Windows 8 apps, which allows you to have sports information or events at just one click.

The Windows Store has a section dedicated specifically to sports, so in today's post, we're going to take a look at sports appswith more success among Windows 8 users and that can help you enjoy your favorites a little more.

News and results

Many of the sports apps in the Windows Store are all about sports news and scores. There are general ones, dedicated to some league, to soccer teams and also specific sports modalities. This means you can install the official Sports app from Microsoft; or those of other developers, such as Sports Republic, an app that promises to put whoever installs it at the forefront of sports information.

Football, football and more football

The soccer fans of the house are the ones who will appreciate the sports section of the Windows Store the most. Currently, most of the apps are themed around the king of sports and you can find applications of all kinds to enjoy football on your computer or tablet with Windows 8

If you are a fan of Fútbol Club Barcelona or Real Madrid, you have FC Barcelona Reader and Real Madrid Reader, which are two apps in the form of a news reader for the FC Barcelona or Real Madrid website, depending on your colours, together with a Live Tile that allows you to see if there is news with a new cover . A priori teams more modest than these two football giants also have their app, such as Rayo Vallecano, which has been producing so many good results since the genius of Paco Jémez led the team, which has the app My Rayito

You can also find football league applications in the sports section of the Windows Store, with the results, classification and news of what happens in each day of the Bundesliga, the Premier League and the Liga BBVA

Applications for other sports

Not everything is soccer, that's what my mother tells me (how right), and in the Windows Store we have a demo. In it you can find applications dedicated to sports modalities that have to do with golf, karate, basketball or tennis.

For example, Golf Swing Viewer allows you to analyze the swing of the best professional golfers with ours, being able to learn through the app to execute our blows with greater dexterity. Another interesting app is Bike Route Explorer, which allows you to import and explore .GPX files, and view them in Bing Maps for Windows 8, as well as calculate some route statistics from the GPX file (distance, average and maximum speed, etc.).

Bonus: Weather application

Is there going to be snow next weekend? Is it going to rain during the soccer game? Will there be waves and wind to get the windsurf board out on the beach? We have already talked about this application in this post in Welcome to Windows 8, but today we return to it in passing, since to practice sports it is often important to know if the weather is good or not.Be sure to consult it when you go to practice your favorite sport.

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