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what were the events in the first olympic games |
just one, 600 m race |
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what events were added to the olympics during the greek's ownership |
discus, long distance running, javelin, long jump **all skills used in battle |
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when was the first recorded olympic games |
776 bc |
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what is an olympiad |
4 year interval |
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which god were the olympics held in respect to |
zeus |
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why would the winner of the olympics present offerings to the gods |
gods were believed to have given the winner exceptional physical ability |
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why did the romans start holding the olympics |
bw 50 BC and 500 AD, the roman empire took over greece |
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how did the romans change the olympics |
they continued it as is, made the saying "mens sana in corpore sano" sound mind in sound body |
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what did the romans believe |
that exercise and mental health go hand in hand |
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why did roman people like watching boxing |
distraction from daily life |
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how did the romans change boxing |
made it a gladiator sport, slaves prisoners and christians would fight a gladiator. when the gladiator took hold of them the audience would determine if they live or die (thumbs up to live, down to die) |
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what does habit hoc habet mean |
hes had it |
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when was the middle ages |
from fall of roman empire to renaissance ages |
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how did the middle ages change sport |
sport became an activity for the elite, designed to increase the skills of fighting men |
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renaissance man and two examples |
someone who is interested in multiple things, michaelangelo and leonardo devinci |
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when did physical education classes first start |
1420 by an italian physician |
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what did the victorian era bring |
industrializaton, middle class develops |
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who was the reigning queen in the victorian era |
queen victoria |
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what did the increase in population during the victorian era bring |
arenas and fields built (people had money to spend on games) |
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why and when were time limits added to sporting events |
victorian era, because middle class paid to watch but didn't have enough time to watch a lot |
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why was amateurism important to british men |
excludes lower classes, couldn't afford to play without being paid |
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what did the british believe about sports |
it showed your character outside of sport as well |
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when was physical education a growing trend |
when british implemented it into their schooling system, countries within the empire did too, military men would teach it |
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why would women do instead of the military phys ed |
calisthenics |
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who is exertion ryerson, what did he do |
developed physical education in Canada, became less about military and more about playing sport and doing one's best |
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why is the university of toronto important in the history of sport |
first university in the british empire to make phys ed degree |
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what were two examples of nationalism in sport |
1936 olympic games manipulated to advertise aryan race and nazi ideals post war communism - clash of ideologies during cold war |
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who banned the olympics, when and why... when was it revived |
theodosius the great in 393 CE because of corruption and bribery... revived in 1896 (43 events, 245 athletes, no women) |
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examples of olympics used for politics in a negative way |
1972 11 israeli olympic team members killed by terrorists.. 1976 african athletes protest new zealand rugby tour |
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what was the olympic truce and when |
using olympic ideals in a positive way to build relations between nations, 2003 UN agreement |
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example of canadian nationalism in sport |
1972 canada USSR summit series- 4 games in canada, 4 in soviet union.. communism vs capitalism.. canadian win = win for way of life |
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why was paul henderson's goal significant |
during ussr summit series.. won for canada.. win for canadian way of life |
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why was africa banned from the olympics |
they practiced apartheid (deny blacks, asians, mixed athletes to compete) |
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when was africa allowd back to olympic games |
1996, apartheid stopped in 1990 |
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what was the negro league |
america discriminates african americans from participating in regular sports leagues and access to facilities |
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who is jackie robinson |
first black to break barrier by playing for brooklyn dodgers 1947 |
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who is tom longboat |
boston marathon, olympics, fastest runner in the world |
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who is harry jerome |
3 olympics, 7 world record sprints |
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who is willie o-ree |
first black in nhl |
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what happened to the asahi baseball team |
baseball team in BC of japanese men born in canada.. played well but put in camps during world war 2 after japanese boats attacked pearl harbour.. team forced out of BC afterward.. in 2003 canadian baseball hall of fame and national film board try to make emends |
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who were the aztecs |
native americans that dominated mexico at the time of the spanish conquest.. |
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who was tlachtli |
aztec basketball forerunner |
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what was the game aztecs played |
get rubber ball through a hoop without using hands, first goal won the game.. winner could collect jewellery and clothes from spectators.... losers were decapitated and sacrificed to gods |
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what game was invented by the native canadians and what was its original name |
lacrosse, originally baggataway.. violent and trained warriors |
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how did the french settlers change baggataway |
named it lacrosse, tamed it.. held world championships every 4 years
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what are the two aboriginal sporting competitons |
arctic winter games: northern and arctic athletes, every 2 yrs, skating snowboard ski north american indigenous games: encourages equal access to sport |
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who is dr james naismit whatd he do |
phys ed student, needed to make an alternative to calisthenics, created basketball using peach baskets |
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when was the first basketball game |
1891 |
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who were the edmonton grads |
edmonton commercial graduates basketball club, women, won 500 and lost 20 games over 25 yrs, represented canada at olympics and won all games |
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what was title IX |
section of US educational amendments, prohibits inequality of sport based on gender (in schools and government owned buildings) e.g girls get scholarships in US too |
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what was the UN millennium goal 3: |
promotes gender equality, increase access for girls to sports |
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what olympics was the first where women can compete in every sport and women came from all countries |
2012 london |
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who was K switzer |
entered boston marathon as a man, when jock semple the marathon director found out he tried to physical remove her from the race.. her bf tom miller body checked him and she continued running |
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who is yin shiwin |
swimmer, female, only 3 one hundredths of a second slower than olympic gold medalist ryan lochte |
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in the top 100 highest paid athletes how many women? who? |
3: maria sharapova, serena williams, li na.. all tennis players |
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what four tennis events pay women and men equally |
us open, australian open, french open, wimbledon |
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which two canadian sport associations pay women and men equally |
triathlon canada, volley ball canada |
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which two canadian sports do women and men compete against each other |
dog sledding, horse jumping |
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who is carolina morace |
coached mens italian soccer team 1999 |
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who is violet palmer |
1999 NBA ref, first women |
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who is sarah thomas |
first woman ref in NHL 2015 |
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what is CAAWS |
canadian association for advancement of women in sport and physical activity |
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how are sport equities given to persons with disabilities |
equipment |
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what was olympic movement and olympic charter |
by IOC (international olympic committee) movement: help create better world by educating through sport without discrimination charter: emphasizes fair play, peace |
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who is international olympic committee |
baron pierre de coubertin in 1894 |
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who is clara hughes |
cyclist, speed skater.. 1 in 5 athletes to win medals in both winter and summer, only athlete to ever win multiple medals in both , ties with cindy klassen for most medals in canada (6) |
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who is alexandre bilodeau |
first canadian to win gold on canadian soil, 2010 winter olympics, brother frederec has cerebral palsy |
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why was the 2012 canadian women's soccer team significant |
bronze in 2012 london olympics, losses semi finals to US |
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who is rode malennan |
canadas only golf of london olympics |
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who created the paralympics |
ludwig guttman, 1948.. originally for spinal cord injury victims in england, 1976 was first official winter paralympic games |
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who created special olympics |
eurice kennedy shriver |
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how were professional teams born |
after victorian era coaches wanted the best players and started to pay them |
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since ww2 why have professional leagues increased |
better wages, higher standard of living, more leisure time, tv, increased pop |
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what aspects make up the modern sports fan |
increased leisure time, media influence, glamorization of sports heros |
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what is exploitation .. example |
one party engages in effort but doesn't receive fair share.. O'bannon fights no pay for NCAA athletes |
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what is cheating in sport |
PEDs , influencing decisions of match officials, match fixing, ,manipulating technology |
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examples of ethical conduct in sport |
international natural bodybuilding federation, italian bobsled team gives bolt to british team in 1964 |
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who started participaction and when |
trudeau, 1971 started body break with joanne mcloed and hal johnson |
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why and when did body break shut down |
lack of funds, 2000, reborn in 2007 |
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what is the 2012 canada=ian sport policy |
federal, provincial and territorial governments join.. increase diversity and number of canadians participating from 2012-2022 |
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how have the CSEP guidelines changed? |
children- from 90/day to 60/day adults- from 60/day to 150/week (20/day) |
