2004 Summer Paralympics

John Rindlisbacher Mrs. Miller English 12 September 20 2016 Good or Bad? Originally the 2014 winter olympics in Sochi were planned to cost around $12 billion, however they ended up costing Russia $50 billion. The extremely large investment that is the olympic games, rarely pays off. There have been few games that bring financial good for a host country. The olympics require constructing new venues for sports that aren’t traditionally common, and upgrades on the hosts transportation, sanitation…

London 2012 Olympics has created almost million jobs, where about 200,000 jobs which were created at the time of the Olympic games (Prynn,2012, para.12).In addition, the money is earned the host country from sports tourism. For example, Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics received 6.52 million tourists, as well as 382,000 from foreign countries. It was estimated the total profit of sports tourism during this event in china about $23 million (chinaview.cn, 2008, para.1&2). Socially, improving city…

Louie Zamperini, a WWII US prisoner of war survivor, inspired millions of people around the world. Zamperini was not only a U.S soldier, but a track star as well, qualifying for the 1936 Berlin Olympics at age nineteen. He finished in 8th place at the Olympic Games 5000m in 14:46.8 with a final lap of under sixty seconds. Louie was sent to war in 1942, where his plane crashed in the middle of the ocean. Along with two other survivors, they were stranded in the middle of the ocean for 47 days…

Well before that, though, the Games were held at one specific place for 800 years. That place was Olympia, Greece. According to John Rennie Short, a professor at the University of Maryland who researches the Olympic Summer Games profusely, said the only reason why the games have been held at different locations every four years is because of how the modern day Olympics were formed to gain support from around the world. If the Olympic Games wanted to follow its historical…

The South Dakota women captured two individual event victories. Sabrina Sabadeanu won the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2 minutes, 04.89 seconds. On the diving board, Sarah Schank’s score of 275.45 on the three-meter dive earned her first place. One the one-meter dive, Schank finished third (231.10) with Haley Pederson right on Schank’s tale to take fourth (231.05). Alongside Sabadeanu’s first place finish, she also earned third place in the 100-yard backstroke (57.80), fourth place in…

Winnie Roach-Leuszler was born February 3, 1926 in Port Credit Ontario. She was the third oldest out of her eleven siblings. She began swimming when she was only three years old, and then started competitively swimming. At nine years old, she won her first long distance medal for swimming 1.5 miles in Port Credit River, Ontario. Winnie is mostly known for her skills in swimming but was nominated for Canada’s all-around Athlete of the Year due to her swimming, diving, softball, track and field,…

In 1936, the University of Washington rowing team participated in the Berlin Olympics crew race, and they finally won the gold medal. Joyce and Joe’s sibling feel exciting after they heard this good news through radio. Leni Riefenstahl also wanted to make a film in order to record this honorable moment. After reading this book, I found out that the ways that audiences watch or hear a crew race now is really different from in 1930s. In chapter 18, after German, Italian and American rowing team…

Why can’t they run free? On this earth when a humans acts in a wrong way they are sent to prison. So by saying this, why are animals caged up and forced to have a life where they cannot control what they want to do. Many people say the purpose of zoos, aquariums and circus is to proved endangered animals with a home and a place to reproduce, but is this what it is being used for? Also should is it a fact that even when born in captivity is it still in there nature to be wild. How will animals…

What I did not realize, was that summer classes move along much more swiftly than the regular semester. Additionally, I did not anticipate the amount of required reading and paper writing needed for each class. I had been out of school for nearly 25+ years, and I did not know how to use…

Lets begin Summer of 2004 I am starting my first ever job as a C.I.T. councilor in training, at a day camp that I have grown up going to and now I get to become a councilor. I am very excited because for nine weeks I will be with nine different groups aging from kids going into second grade to kids going to be sophomores in high school. I am really excited to be with a lot of the councilors I had when I was a in camp. Also I would be working along side a lot of my friends I grew up with who…