Farewell Summer

perfect opportunity to show off whatever host nations offer. The Games put a country on international display to host thousands of athletes from around the world. On July 13, 2001, the International Olympic Committee awarded the honor hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics to China. More specifically, in their capital city of Beijing. This put the country on an international stage and would require years of effort to ready the city. This readying of the city for the Games was important. The 2008…

The Victor’s Crown was written by David Potter as a way to help his readers not fond of the Historic Sporting events timeline understand how these sports gained interest from royalty to the public sphere of the world, as well as the backstories behind the specific sports including the nature of the athletes participating. The book itself is divided up into 29 chapters all following a laxly based sequential order of events which highlights important events leading up to Roman Olympic games as…

meaning. The first Olympic games were in 776 BC, on the great plains of Olympia, Greece. The Ancient games were nothing like they are today however, the history of what happened between now and then is what makes our modern games so great. It is the summer of 776 BC in Greece, the male athletes line up to run “The Stadion” on the plains of Olympia behind the Palace of Zeus. In the ancient games there was only one event, and only men were permitted to part take in it. “The Stadion” was a foot…

The Olympics have been riddled with political protests and violence ever since their creation in 1898. Consistent racial, political, and religious protests occur at the games and hinder the competition. The United States has even gone as far as boycotting the 1980 games in Moscow. In 1984 the Soviet Union boycotted the games in LA. In the 1972 Munich games 11 Israeli athletes were kidnapped and slaughtered just because of their religion. In the 1968 Mexico City Olympic games Tommie Smith and…

Gaming Is Just A Hobby Gaming is a hobby that I have been interested in since I was in elementary school. As a boy my family did not have a ton of money, but eventually we could afford a gaming system to entertain my two brothers, two sisters, and I. Gaming as a whole should be seen as just another harmless hobby, and not something to blame when people commit crimes or act a certain way. Being able to call myself gamer made me proud, until accusations of violence, immaturity, racism, sexism,…

was omnipresent, like Augustus’ portraits. Under totalitarian rule, artists and designers hid truths and promoted ideologies in print. Their techniques were clever and persuasive. The Soviets used art to promote ideas of a new society and a new man. This propaganda was used to win over the intellectuals as well as the average man. Similar to Augustus, Stalin stressed himself as the leader. When Stalin came to power, he sent the region into full communism and demanded more industrialization.…

As of today their is a variety of things I do. For example one of my favorite hobbies is I swim and even thought is cold I still go swimming. For me swimming is not just a thing for fun is a thing I have to do and that I love. You can say I am addicted to it, the reason I feel like that about swimming is because it calms me down. This is why when I buy my house it will have a pool. Not just any pool a one of a kind pool. Usually when I finish swimming we play poker. Who’s we you might wonder,’’…

After reading, “Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 ” famous olympic gold medal rowing champion Joe Rantz contacted the author, Daniel James Brown, to discuss the central character of the book, who happened to be the champion’s childhood friend. On his deathbed, Rantz started to weakly tell Brown his life story, and Brown decided that his story could not go untold, and sat down to write “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin…

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to speed skate in the Olympics? In the Olympics there are plenty of sports, and one such sport is speed skating. There are 4 main components to all sports, and I will be informing you about those. The first element of sports I will be explaining to you is competition. Speed skating is mostly self explanatory, but the main goal of it is to move over the distance of the race in the fastest time possible. You may be wondering “How do I play?” Well, while we’re…

Olympics take place every two years. People think the Olympics should be in the same place every other year, but will this really even help other countries with the Olympics. Olympics can cost over 20 billion dollars for countries to put them on. Last year Brazil had to put on the big show of the Olympics and because of this they almost went broke. People regret picking Brazil because they soon realized after that they couldn't handle the costs. People think the Olympics should still be all…