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    Pros And Cons Of Olympism

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    in the world, the majority of the profits would not be possible without marketing and advertisements. Every two years the Olympics games take place and businesses all over the world want to be included in the large profits associated with sponsorships of these games. The Olympic Games are the most watched sporting events that create profitable global media events. The International Olympic Committee uses Olympism, “a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind,” as the basis of values for their organization. According to the National Institutes of Health, obesity and overweight together are the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States behind tobacco…

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    Cheating Culture In Sports

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    Take a look at some of the most famous and unfortunate missteps that have taken place in the sporting world. These examples are very common in major sports. They need to be dealt with in every way possible because they keep on spreading and trending all over the world. 1. Poor officiating behaviors and practices During the 2002 winter Olympics held at Salt Lake City in Utah, Canada’s figure skating duo of Jamie Sale and David Pelletier put on an amazing display in the free skate program.…

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    The 2002 Winter Olympic Games should have been highlighted by the great accomplishments of athletes such as the Canadian men’ ice hockey team or Apolo Ohno. Instead, these Olympic games are mainly remembered for the number of scandals that surrounded the international event. First, it was found that the President and Vice President of Salt Lake Bid Committee were both caught offering bribes to various members of the IOC. Second, during the pairs’ figure skating competition, dual gold medals were…

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    Suggested as Anti-Doping Solution” in Athletic Business I learned Mike Miller is the CEO of the International Olympians Association. He is very familiar with the international issue of PEDs, doping, and use of illegal substances for athletes in professional sports. His suggestion to help regulate this international issue is to use Microchips to detect an athlete's possible use of any banned substance or practice. This issue of illegal use of drugs or blood doping has been a challenge for many…

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    Games is a huge international multi-sport event which involves the athletes with a wide range of impairment. Paralympic is governed by the International Paralympic Committee and their main purpose is to organize the summer and winter Paralympic games, administer and coordinating world championships and other competitions. (“Paraympic About Us” 2016). Paralympic games were just held two months ago in Rio, Brazil. It involved sports like archery, athletics, boccia, canoe, cycling, equestrian,…

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    The modern revival of the Olympic Games is often credited by many to be due to Baron Pierre de Coubertin’s hard work. However, it is known that there was numerous more players in the execution of bringing the Games back. There is no doubt that all five men deserve credit for helping revive the Games, however the one that deserves the most credit is not de Coubertin, although he is typically credited by a large portion of the population. Similar to the luck-filled, improbable revival of the…

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    discuss the case of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, where certain values was promoted by the Olympic movement, but the International Olympic Committee and the Sydney Organizing Committee drifted away from the values and essentially managed to create a culture where questionable and unethical practices were being overlooked, and thereby strayed away from the “Olympic spirit”. An example of an “honest” culture being established can be found on the same pages, where a piece regarding university…

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    Sex testing was first introduced to the Olympic Games by Avery Brundage in 1936, in order to halt any athletes trying to disguise their sexual identity. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and International Olympic Committee (IOC) have sex-control policies in place on the terms that; sex exists as a binary, sport is a level playing field and intersex athletes have an unfair advantage over others and should be banned. However this logic is not as straight forward as it…

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    In some cases, a member is involved with more than one committee depending on personal skills to perform in the committee. Our preparation also includes the provision of transportation and accommodation for student members of ACS and also invited guests. All of this are parts of the preparation stage which needs serious attention and should be planed fro prior to implementation stage. Schedule and Major Milestone This part of the conference planning, gives a detailed representation of what…

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    senior prom? Some people think that Joe would be a good choice for the prom committee chair because he is popular and on the football team. It takes more than being a charismatic guy to plan a prom. The prom committee needs a person they can count on. Back when the football team needed Joe’s help with their annual fundraising car wash he did not show up to help. Instead he went to a party with a group of friends, completely blowing off his responsibility to his team. Just because Joe is on the…

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