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    A : SPORT AS A UNIFIER 1. I believe that sporting events contribute significantly to unifying a nation. Sporting events are a great form of entertainment and attract huge audiences around the world. Spectators either gather at stadiums to watch live events or watch socially on their TV’s. Sports brings out admirable qualities in people such as mutual respect, team play, discipline and fair play. Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black President, used sport as a method to unify the…

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    has a primary goal to bring consistency to anti-doping policies and regulations within sporting The National Anti-Doping Organizations (NADOs) is a government based organization that tests all athletes in and out of competition. They also test international athletes that are testing within the nation’s (United States) borders. In addition, The Regional Anti-Doping Organization also known as RADO is an organization that was put in place to help anti-doping within a region such as Europe. It's…

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    prisons at that time (Terry, 2014). Most likely, that was the true purpose behind the attack. The attack influenced numerous stakeholders within and outside Germany. Overall, stakeholder theory posits that the Olympic Games rely on the International Olympic Committee as the key stakeholder (Ferrand, Chappelet, & Geguin, 2012). Other internal stakeholders include national Olympic committees, sport-related organizations, government, and the audience (Ferrand et al., 2012). The Munich massacre had…

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    Modern Olympics DBQ

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    mayor of Tokyo, Ryotaro Azuma, explains in document 5 that the Olympic Games of 1964, which Japan hosted, helped the country recover economically from their defeat in World War II and eventually grow as a world trade power. This was beneficial to international trade and encouraged other countries that upon seeing Japan’s gain from playing host to the Olympics may have desired a similar rise in trade and economic influence. The Olympics were a means of improving a country’s economy…

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    Started in Olympia, Greece in 1896, the quadrennial mega-event, namely the Olympic Games, has been widely spread in all around the world to draw attention among people with the sense of competition in sports. Today, the Olympic Games does not only represents the spirit of sport, but the emblem of global attention as well as achieving the world city status. The Olympic Games has certainly benefited the host cities from growing its place market, enhancing urban regeneration (Essex, 2000) and the…

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    Athletic Trainer

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    blah blah … To be an athletic trainer for a team in the Olympic games is my ultimate, long term goal. Athletic training has been a part of my life for several years now but on the opposite side as an athlete. In high school I was a part of a dance company and on the high school dance team, dancing around forty plus hours a week which resulted in several injuries, because of these injuries I was able to get my first glimpse into the athletic training world. Now in college, I am working with the…

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    The Olympic Games is the world’s largest sporting display held during the summer and winter seasons on a four year cycle. The event is held in one city out of the entire world. On average, 10,000 athletes participate in about 300 events in the Summer Games and about 3,000 athletes compete in about 100 events during the Winter Games. The Olympics began in ancient Olympia, Greece from 776 BC through 393 AD. They were celebrated as a religious festival held in the honour of the Greek god, Zeus. It…

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    Persuasive Essay On Golf

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    inclusion was questionable. There are some who would say that the only reason it resurfaced is due to a sum of money changed hands. My question is why is this a problem? So what, they bribed the volunteer committee to secure golf in the Olympics, better that than bribing people on important international votes, though that's probably happening too. The IOC as well as the involved countries may have smelled money, but it wasn’t from bribes, it was from advertising revenue. Do you know the number…

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    Ryan Lochte

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    Many people know the name, Ryan Lochte, or have at least heard of him. Ryan Lochte is an 12 time Olympic medalist in the sport of swimming. He has been competing in the Olympics since 2012 and currently holds the World Records in the 100m, 200m, and the 400m. This past summer, Olympians from every country traveled to Rio to compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics. Ryan Lochte was one of these Olympians and went to compete in the sport of swimming. The Olympian was very successful in the games as…

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    The chaos wars, A tournament for fighters held once a year. Every year the world's greatest fighters travel from across the globe to participate in the world's greatest and bloodiest contest. The victor of the tournament gains immense wealth, fame, and prestige which guarantees fighters every year. The tournament is held in a grand open air coliseum known as the “ Blood garden”. The Blood Garden is capable of seating approximately 200,000 people and is revered as the world's largest stadium. Of…

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