2012 Summer Olympics

We, so often as people come across mysterious and unusual cases on the news, which in the end creep the hell out of us. They creep the public out or sometimes astonish us or sometimes even mess with our minds as we try to differ truth from lies, right from wrong. There was one particular person who did this to the public his name was Eric Rudolph. Rudolph was a person who thought of himself as righteous, he believed that his course of actions were right. What he did was wrong to many people, but…

Every young gymnast dreams of competing in the Olympic Games. They picture themselves standing on the Olympic podium with a gold medal around their necks, millions of people cheering for them. Thousands of gymnasts across the world train countless hours, giving everything they have into the sport of gymnastics just for a chance of getting an Olympic title. Gymnastics is enjoyed by both athletes and spectators around the world, but have you ever stopped and wondered how this sport originated?…

your legs are close to each other while your arms are at your sides. Trampolining started in the 1930’s when George Nissen observed a safety net. He then made a trampoline and it was introduced to the world . Ever since then P.E events such as the olympics. The sport Trampoline is obviously played on…

Nadia Comaneci was an olympic gymnast in the 1970’s. She was the first women to score a perfect ten in the Olympics in 1976 when she was only 14! She was born in Onesti, Romania on November 12, 1961. She grew up in Romania in an apartment with her parents. She loved to pretend she was a gymnast with her friend, and that is where Bela Karolyi, her soon-to-be gymnastics coach. At the time, she was only six years old. Bela found her and invited her to try out at his gym. Nadia and her parents…

“The Montreal Olympics can no longer lose money than a man can have a baby”1 Jean Drapeau, Mayor of Montreal from1960 to 1986 famously said. It was to be the first Canadian-hosted Olympics in our 76-year participation in the Games. However, the Games were marred by accidents, construction failures, and massive costs to the population of Montreal. The crown jewel of the first Canadian Games, the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was to be the shining new Olympics Stadium, estimated at an initial $134…

The chaos wars, A tournament for fighters held once a year. Every year the world's greatest fighters travel from across the globe to participate in the world's greatest and bloodiest contest. The victor of the tournament gains immense wealth, fame, and prestige which guarantees fighters every year. The tournament is held in a grand open air coliseum known as the “ Blood garden”. The Blood Garden is capable of seating approximately 200,000 people and is revered as the world's largest stadium. Of…

the money would be able to fund and support the non-revenue sports such as swimming, wrestling, golf, water polo and a lot more. Most and almost all these sports compete and participates in the every year olympics. If these sports do not get money, the athletes will slowly fade away then olympic sports will also decrease and eventually be gone. After that, then there will probably only consist of the sports, basketball, football, and baseball which are revenue sports. Conclusion: So those are…

individual’s grades, height, and through competitive events such as the Olympics. The Olympics is a great example of limits at infinity because of the variations in sporting events, gender, times or scores, and has been going on since 1896. The men’s and women’s…

It may be understandable why those in charge of the 2016 Rio Olympics created Rule 40. This rule forbids athletes from pointing out in any way, or even mentioning, sponsors that helped them as they prepared to get to the Olympics, but are not actually associated with the games. After all, advertisers who do participate in the Olympics bring in a lot of money. The rule also includes forbidding the mentions of summer, effort, and performance in a generic way to promote a company. It 's also…

the Olympic Games at home. Many of us enjoy watching sports and will cheer on our country’s athletes while the Olympics are taking place. However, for the upcoming Olympics in Rio, there has been massive controversy over whether they should even take place. Many problems have flooded Brazil recently and organizations like the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, important figures and authors, and even athletes have taken stance on whether the olympics…