Winter Olympic Games

Figure skating is a sport in which single athletes or teams of athletes conduct artist performances on ice. The objective of the sport is to score the highest marks possible from the judges, in order to get points athletes are required to perform a number of different moves, they perform a selection of spins, jumps, lifts and steps depending on the nature of the event. Skaters may use professional music editors so that their music meets requirements; they are required to skate to music that…

Winter Olympics Bobsleigh Bobsleigh originated in St. Moritz Switzerland as a recreational sport for tourists. The first competitions began in 1884. Bobsleigh’s governing body, the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation was founded in 1923. A year later, bobsleigh was included in the first Winter Olympic Games. The two-man bobsleigh event was added in the 1932 Winter Olympics. It was excluded in the 1960 Olympics but ever since has been contested. Women’s bobsleigh was demonstrated in…

hearing teammates can tap the deaf athlete with a certain code to signal a specific play. For example 3 taps on the deaf athletes forearm could signify the athlete setting a pick on number 3. In 2008 Erich Krogman competed in the New Zealand Deaf Games. He played rugby and cricket with and against hearing athletes and he did not have an…

In February of 2002, at the Winter Olympics taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah, two Canadian figure skaters were trapped during what was the most high-profile judging scandal of all time. At no fault of their own, the pair consisting of Jamie Salé and David Pelletier lost their chance at the gold medal when a French judge voted in favour of the Russian pair. Thus, the Russians claimed the gold medal and the Canadians settled for silver. When confronted, the French judge admitted to being…

Many people consider summer and winter as being the best seasons of the year. Summer, being the warmest season of the year and winter, being the coldest season, have qualities that make each person call them their favorite seasons. In order for people to call these seasons their favorites, consider what makes summer and winter different and similar. Summer and winter are two seasons that are opposite of each other in terms of climate. During the summer people tend to see the sun out more during…

For instance, factors such as, political, economic, social, and cultural spheres, have all played a pivotal role in the increasing movement toward globalization involved with sport. As mentioned in the article, we see that the World Cup, and the Olympics offer a platform towards all nations; therefore, has no equal match for other small nations as they later assert their national independence from each other by competing at different levels on the global stage. Furthermore, sport has widely…

- As the third largest international, multi-sport games, the Pan Am Games are already creating ripples of excitement in Toronto, its 2015 host city. But with select events happening in the Courtyard Niagara Falls' own backyard, fans of everything from kayaking to rowing can book a stay at this preeminent family hotel in Niagara Falls to find out who will take home the gold. The more than 6,000 athletes competing in the 2015 Pan Am Games from July 10 to 26 will represent 41 countries and…

world have not heard of the Olympics? Not many. Olympic athletes come from nearly every country in the world and have all different talents. Athletes like these have been around for a very long time and will continue to stay around. They started out in the Ancient Olympics with sports like the Chariot Races and the Javelin throw, but have moved on to things like gymnastics and figure skating. Despite being very different from Modern Olympics, the Ancient Olympics were very similar in terms…

Introduction The Nazi Olympics of 1936 provided Adolf Hitler with an unprecedented opportunity to cloak militarism and racism under the cape of the Summer Olympics. During this time, Hitler dampened his antisemitic policies and plans for enlarging Germany in order to exploit the opportunities as vehicle to portray Germany as more tolerant and peaceful than it actually was. In reaction to the Olympics, the United States and most western democracies rejected a boycott of the games. Rather,…

The ancient Olympics were first held in Olympia, Greece in the year 776 B.C. in order to honor the Greek gods. The games were a way for different Greek cities to compete to see who had the better athlete. After all these centuries, the ancient Olympics have been transformed into the modern version we know of today, but that does not mean they are without similarities. In 776 B.C., the first Olympic Games were held in honor of the Greek gods in Olympia, Greece. The ancient Olympics allowed…