2014 Winter Olympics

The Olympic gold medal represents the greatest achievement for athletes in modern day Olympics. The winning athlete receives a personal victory for their physical abilities and training, and it is also a victory for their family and country. The successful athlete catapults to another level of great honor, and duly earns respect for their victory when engaged in Olympic competition. Pindar’s epinician poetry celebrated Greek ethos during ancient Olympics. The victorious athletes of Pindar’s time…

The culture of expressive individualism was sparked in the 1950’s as a contrast to the collective conformity of that era. Highly regulated and individually constraining individual sports forms were weakened for some people by the individualized nature of contemporary society. The 1960’s and 70’s produced a large amount of youth based alternative sports cultures that wanted to provide alternatives to traditional, highly regulated achievement based sports forms. In 1978 Bourdieu described…

The passengers aboard the RMS Titanic were about 2,223 people who sailed on the maiden voyage. They sailed from Southampton to New York City. With many great deaths that occurred on this “unsinkable ship”, many authors used this event as a background for a great story, but were the details of the event accurately portrayed? When writing Dangerous Waters, it is clear that Gregory Mone did his research and showed the event accurately. The book Dangerous Waters by Gregory Mone was a heart…

Two major experiences overwrite the many more Henry had, these experiences are boxing and the Millers’ Bakehouse. According to Josh “Boxing was his hobby during ‘Coota’s’ late twenties and early thirties, and that he stopped this hobby after his second child.” I assume that boxing prepared him for fatherhood, also boxing would have kept him fit. Visual #1 (http://www.aihw.gov.au/ deaths/life-expectancy/) shows the life expectancy in 1890 at 45. Henry almost doubled this age. Could boxing have…

Long has sport been an important aspect of Australian culture. Some attribute the prominence of sport in Australia to the fitness required for the survival of aboriginal tribes during prehistoric times (Parker, 1996). Regardless of the origin of sports’ cultural significance in Australia, its importance is indubitable. However, the question of whether the importance and representation of sport in a cultural identity is exclusive to Australia, still remains. The notion that Sport is as Australian…

Survivors and Deaths The Spedden Story One Survival story, was about Douglas that was the only child of Frederic and Daisy Spedden when they boarded the Titanic. An hour after the shuddering collision, Douglas, his mother, Daisy, and two servants went into lifeboat 3. The dad was also allowed to get into a lifeboat when they let men get into lifeboats early on. They had all fortunately survived! Sadly Douglas’s life was cut short on August 6, 1915, two years after the Titanic crashed.…

5. Corinna Everson; Earth knows that Arnold Schnowscker was an undisputed champion in bodybuilding. Until now, no one matches his fitness level and charisma. Allow me to share an information about a woman who is par with Arnold. Who is She? She is Corinna Everson pro bodybuilder, born in 4th January 1948 and record holder of undefeated amateur and professional courier. This gives you an insight about her passion about bodybuilding and willingness to learn new things. Corinna's uniqueness…

Isador Strauss was born on February 6, 1845 and was the co-owner of Macy's department store with Nathan, his brother. He was born into a Jewish family, and had 5 other siblings. He was educated at the Collinsworth Institute in Talbotton, GA. In 1871, he married Rosalie Ida Blun. He eventually moved to New York he became involved with Macy and C.O. He and his wife traveled back to Europe on the “Amerika” for one last time before going back to New York for good. To get back to New York, Strauss…

where the two cover athletes were paid to be on the cover wrestlers a job after completion. Also as the spatial distribution of amateur wrestling increased across Australia, it has lead to an increase in the success of Australia wrestlers in the Olympics. Although we didn't win a medal at all this year in all forms of wrestling, the most recent was the 2012 London games, we one a silver in the…

society, which in turn, brought more violent games to the Olympics. This being said, in order to create fierce competition, the Greeks needed to implement the rule for weight or age classes with all fighting competitions. The competitions were pale, which translates to boxing and was introduced in 724 BCE. The next sport being introduced in 688 BCE, pyx or boxing. Lastly, the most violent of them all, the pankration which came into the Olympics in 648 BCE. All three of these competitions became…