Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics

created the Olympics, at first it was a 1 day festival to honor Zeus in 776 B.C, then it changed in 472 B.C to a 5-day event of competitive athletic games that attracted athletes from all social classes. Second, they created different types of art. They made sculptures from stone, marble, and bronze. Lastly, they were great architects. They constructed buildings with huge columns. The Olympic Games The Olympic games were sporting games that only took place in Greece. There were…

of sweat was in the air. Everyone was preparing for the big olympics. Achilles walks into Olympia, a valley near the city of Elis. Achilles looks around and absorbs everything around him. He sees the people all rushing around, he smells sweat from the athletes warming up, and he feels the excitement buzzing around him. Then he sees the sanctuary of Zeus, and right to the east of that sanctuary stood the stone stadium where the olympics took place every four olympiads (years). “This is it,”…

cultural globalization. The Olympics are a pretext for social pleasure, a background, a cultural wallpaper element of a social environment. It is a major catalyst to the longitudinal and fluctuating transformation processes which undermine the local culture at all levels to concurrently construct a common global culture. Compared to other topics in globalization, sporting events rely on deference’s and competition. A major event that happens every four year is the Olympics. In 2000, they were…

With a growing audience, there will be more individuals both accepting and rejecting an artist’s idea. Artists must stay relevant in their art forms, messages, and followers to maintain their influential presence. In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Weiwei was responsible for the architecture, Bird’s Nest, which he now reflects on as a misrepresentation of China as it creates the illusion of a free society: simply an image to the rest of the world (See Fig. 1; Worden, 2016). In the same…

Sharks swim faster because of their special skin. Through the learning of this, we created artificial human “shark skin” swimsuits to enhance our performance at water sports such as swimming. This innovation has not worked very effectively. According to the article, Shark Skin Boosts Swim Speed and Cuts Drag by Adrian Bishop it states, “Shark skin is coated in sharp scales, similar to teeth, called dermal denticles (or (placoid scales) that affect the flow of water to reduce drag and increase…

Michael Phelps, an American former competitive swimmer, has won a total of twenty-eight metals, twenty-three of them golds. Provided that, what gives Phelps the ability to be such a fast swimmer and why can’t we be like him as well? The answer is our DNA and protein within our bodies, which makes everyone different and individually built, causing Phelps to have long arms and a strong torso. The structure of DNA and forming proteins are two extremely complex aspects. Though, throughout the unit…

about may come as a surprise to many because they do not associate him with mental illness. It is Michael Phelps, competitive swimmer and most highly decorated Olympian of all time with 28 medals (23 of them gold). Phelps was only 15 when he made his Olympic debut in Sydney in 2000. Although he didn't medal the first time around, the teenager put the world on notice when he finished fifth in the 200-meter butterfly final. He would go on to win eight medals in Athens, eight in Beijing, six in…

the and since became mandatory. He also holds the world record as a part of the . He is the reigning world and Olympic champion in these three events. Due to his unprecedented dominance and achievements in sprint competition, he is widely considered to be the greatest sprinter of all time.An eight-time , Bolt won the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay at three consecutive Olympic Games, although he subsequently lost one of the gold medals (as well as the world record set therein) nine years…

History of Track and Field Track and field is one of the oldest sports in the world, and throughout the years it has evolved in so many different ways.Track and field began in 776 BC, and that is also when the Olympic Games began. "Athletic Scholarships. (http://www.athleticscholarships.net/history-of-track-and-field.htm) When track and field began there was only one event and it wasn 't even a running event. Gender, in track and field, was very different back then than it is today and has…

The Olympics have always been an exciting time when athletes from all over the world come together and compete for the bronze, silver, and gold medals. The first Olympic Games began in Olympia, Greece in 776 BC, and then stopped some years later when the Romans gained more power in Greece. The Games were revived in 1859, sponsored by Evangelos Zappas, a wealthy Roman philanthropist, and in 1896 the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the supreme authority of the worldwide modern Olympic…