It may be a little late, considering the Olympics are almost over, but I thought people might like it anyway.
Here is a widget I wrote to display the medal count at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Since there is no RSS feed for on the Olympic site for the medals I had to write code to read values from the html.
So though it is a little late it was an interesting exercise in doing screen scraping with JavaScript and using JQuery in widgets.
You can download the widget here: