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    Ancient Roman Arenas

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    different backgrounds go to partake in an event. However, modern day sports arenas serve a wider variety of purposes than Roman arenas, and, due to modern technologies, have various features which Roman arenas lacked. While modern sports arenas and ancient Roman arenas are similar in their core purposes and functions, both different incredibly in form. Roman arenas were made out of stone, brick, cement, and concrete. These massive structures…

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    Discus History

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    started in 708 B.C. in ancient Greece where it was used to test a male’s strength and coordination, it was also one of the first sport any Olympiad played. Even though many sports have changed drastically throughout history discus hasn’t. At first discus was used in a pentathlon which consisted of discus, jumping, wrestling, running and javelin, and now it is its own event. “The typical discus weighed between 4 ½ to 13 pounds.” Discus was eventually added to the modern Olympic games in Athens…

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    Urban Development

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    Understanding the Olympic movement and operation history, learn from previous hosting cities’ experience Finding connections between Olympic Games and Urban development, and explore how would them affect the modern Stadium design Compare and contrast similar structural design and construction method, revise and design to accommodate “modern circus” practice Simulating reconfiguring scenarios, and examining possibilities Key Resource Pitts, Adrian C., and Hanwen Liao. Sustainable Olympic…

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    Greek Origin Date Essay

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    then thought very highly of the victor. They were seen as the Greeks version of celebrities (Fox 2005, 67). When they returned to their city-states, they welcomed and rewarded in a victory parade, and many stories were told about them. However, an Olympic Victory was owed to the favour of the gods. They believed that the victor was their chosen, in which they helped win the legendary prize, and whose name would then be talked about for long after he was dead (Pentazou, Kakridis & Andronicos…

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    The first Olympic Games were held in Greece, Olympia, from seven hundred and seventy six BC through three hundred and ninety three AD, it took 1503 years for the Olympics to return. The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. The ancient Olympic games went for five days in summer ever four years. Olympia, the site of the ancient Olympic Games, is in the western part of the Peloponnese which, according to Greek myth, is the island of "Pelops. Olympia functioned as a meeting…

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    Olympics Research Paper

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    The 2016 summer Olympics will be in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 5. This tradition started in 776 BC in ancient Greece (“The Real Story”). The final games of the ancient Olympics ended in 393 AD because of the fact that a Greek ruler named Theodosios decreed that all cult practices, including the Olympics, be ended (Cartwright). Barron Pierre de Coubertin, a French aristocrat, suggested 1503 years later the idea of bringing back the Olympics in 1804 because he thought the more physical…

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    Doping In Sports

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    means taking illegal substances such as steroids or human growth hormones to get a head of the game. We know that Major League baseball has had a problem with the use of steroids. Even with the greatest athletes in the world. They will do anything to get that gold medal. The Olympics is notorious for having athletes test positive for steroid use. Every since the Greeks and the start of the Olympics athletes have used enhancers, the Greeks used sesame seeds. The Greeks thought the…

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    For many of years, the Olympics have been missing many games, Many people and many opportunities to make the world a better place. The Ancient Olympics were a set of games played and ran by Ancient Greece. The Modern Olympics are a set of games played by the whole world and ran by the IOC. The modern Olympics are better than the ancient Olympics.The Modern Olympics are better than the Ancient Olympics because they make better rules and because they make the world a better place. In a little more…

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    It was before the summer Olympics games in Beijing in early 2008. My family and I were on an extended visit to Beijing. The daughter of one of my father’s friends invited me to the new Beijing National Olympic Stadium, i.e. the Bird’s Nest. Her mother was participating in a pre-Olympic track and field event at the Nest, basically a dress rehearsal for the Olympics. The stadium along with its dramatic lights is quite impressive. As we walked on to the stadium grounds, with its open roof and early…

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    One of the most ancient sports we have today is wrestling. It can date back to the ancient Greek empire, as people would fight against each other in the first Olympics. Wrestling has changed a lot since then, and well for starters people don’t fight to the death anymore. There are a few types of wrestling that are played today Greco Roman, Folk, Freestyle and more recently Female Wrestling. Wrestling is filled with rules, regulations, and a certain scoring guide to help make sport more…

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