International Paralympic Committee

Olympic drug testing in international athletes is a huge topic on todays Olympic games. A lot of opinions are shared and a lot of problems are to be dealt with. Performance enhancing drugs should be legal to provide better and faster healing, but anti-doping efforts should be betterly enforced for fairness of competitions and legitimacy of gold medal winnings. With the various arguments against doping or with doping, you can 't deny the fact that there are many perils of using performance…

authors, and even athletes have taken stance on whether the olympics should be cancelled or continued. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) must cancel the Olympics from Rio de Janeiro because of Brazil’s economic state,…

Games. This chance is a 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…

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…

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…

The current modern Olympics is the greatest sporting event in the world. The modern Olympic games include all sports, like basketball, soccer, track and swimming. The Olympic games also include the five main continents of the world, North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Australia. The Olympics stand for the unification of all the athletes around the world to compete in these games. Furthermore, the only reason the modern Olympics are here is because of the ancient Greeks, and…

games is a major international sporting event that takes place every 4 years and it is hosted in a different country each time. Countries will bid to claim the rights to hosting the games. Although the games were originally held exclusively in Olympia, Greece. In recent years, people are beginning to question whether the Olympics should have a permanent home. The spirit of the Olympics is that it brings together athletes and people across the globe in celebration of the international sporting…

After the people of Ancient Greece got home from their jobs or their training, they needed a form of entertainment to keep their lives interesting. They found many forms of entertainment, from watching plays at the theatre to competing in the Olympics. Just like today, the children of Ancient Greece played games like checkers and marbles for fun. The people of Ancient Greece had a wide variety of things to do with their free time. Now a worldwide event, the olympics started in ancient Greece as…

Terence Parkin Adley Rose Terence Parkin is an amazing swimmer who is deaf. Parkin is considered the Michael Phelps of the deaflympics. Terence Parkin was born on April 12, 1980 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is a place in South Africa. Parkin is currently 36 years old and he still currently lives in South Africa. His parents are Neville and Bev Parkin. He is also married to Ingrid. He has 2 daughters; Shayla and Leya Parkin, they are also swimmers. Terence Parkin has had many accomplishments…

a participate of the Olympics is a hard task, an athlete must first comply with the Olympic Charter and follow the rules of the International Federation governing the sport. There is no specific age limit but the youth Olympics are from age 15 to 18. In the United States in order to make it to the trials you must meet the “B” standard. The International Olympic Committee are currently allowing transgender men to compete in the male category and transgender women to compete in the women category…