Ancient Olympic Games

There are many different things that we have gotten from the Greeks. One of the things that we have gotten is the Olympics. This sporting event is one of the big events that almost everyone in the world knows about. There are many different events that are in the Olympic that the world has adopted. A few of these sports are javelin, discus, and long jump. These three sports are some of the most popular. The discus is when you throw a weighted Frisbee. A javelin is a big wooden pole that has a…

when you hear the word Olympics? Does your mind go to the games that happen every other summer and winter? Or are you one of those people that thinks all the way back into time, about how the Olympics started and why they started? For me, I think of the Olympics as something that allows you to dream big. “The Olympics show that your dreams can come true if you work hard. It’s not IMPOSSIBLE.” Jencarlos Canela hit the Olympics right on the head with that quote. The Olympics is somewhere to dream,…

sport industry has been consistently growing and unique. The country of India is also very active in participating in international sporting events, such as the Olympics. The purpose of this paper is to give a summary on India, and to inform how they view sports in their country by looking at their sport structure, their various Olympic committees, the culture in their sport participation, and their history of hosting sport mega events. History, Background and India Characteristics India is a…

“professional” wrestling you see on television with the goofy costumes, silly names and the use of props. Well, the real sport of wrestling dates back to before the first olympic games were held back in ancient Greece in 776 B.C. The sport of wrestling was actually the sport that started the great thing today that we call the olympics. Wrestling has many components that people would not think about, including maintaining a special diet to drop weight and reduce body fat, how the sport scoring…

The current Olympics still have aspects of the ancient Olympics; however, they still have evolved. Some the aspects of the Olympics that have evolved are the events, athletes and spectators, popularity, and expenses. The sporting events have evolved a lot over time. There used to only be five days for event because there were not that many sports. “At first the Olympics were only one day, but in 472 BC, they became five days. The first day was for sacrifices to the gods. The second day consisted…

about the two talented runners Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams. It is a true story written by Colin Welland, in which the two runners Eric and Harold competed in the 1924 Olympic games. Both Eric and Harold were ambitious runners who had to struggle throughout their journey. I will be writing about their fight to win the Olympic games and how faith, training and glory played an important role for them in accomplishing what they wanted. Eric and Harold had different religious principles…

In 1946 George Orwell wrote, ”Politics and the English Language," the essay explains the relationships between bad writing and bad thinking as well as the political effects. According to Orwell, Modern English and especially written English are full of bad habits; As a result, people imitate each other, and the bad habits spread. Orwell argues that by following the rules he presented people will stop the tendency of writing or speaking bad English. One person that follows these rules is John F.…

In ancient civilizations of South America, athletes chewed coca leaves to make them mentally alert as well as alleviate pain. (Bjornlund 12). The doping controversy began in 1865 when canal swimmers in Amsterdam, Holland were the first athletes to be charged with doping (Timeline). Doping in sports became a problem because growing use of drugs came with growing risks to athletes, as well as dangerous incidents led to measures being taken (Bjornlund 13). There are two points of views concerning…

with national and regional sport teams and athletes” (Coakley, 2011, p. 74). Sport is used to bond citizens under one ideology and in the case of the Olympics the United Sates bonds behind their athletes. Sport also reproduces the ideals of the consumer economy, which is the foundation of a neoliberal society. As states by Coakley, “[the Olympic games] provide opportunities for large corporations to incessantly inject into public discourse messages promoting consumption as a lifestyle as well as…

As said by the three-time Olympic champion, Gail Devers, “Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.” In the non-fiction book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini’s unrelenting strength in the face of unimaginable horrors emulates the words spoken by…