Olympic Charter

the Olympics. In their very first Olympics, the Helsinki Olympics of 1952, they matched the Americans in the medal count. This dominance continued through most of the Soviet era. However, this dominance was not free from politics. There were instances of boycotts, during the ‘80 and ‘84 Olympics, from both the USA and USSR due to political tensions abroad. Many decades later, these same political tensions are still present during the Olympics.When Russia went to build the 2014 Winter Olympics in…

From Titanic to Costa Concordia – a century of lessons not learned is a paper written by Schröder-Hinrichs, J., Hollnnagell, E. and Baldauf, M. that describes both the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and the sinking of the Costa Concordia in 2012. The Piece was written to highlight how two cruise ship disasters that happened almost exactly a century apart had the same underlying human and organizational factors; thus illuminating the fact that though many thing in the shipping industry have…

Maria Sharapova a famous athlete in the sport of tennis was recently caught using performance enhancing drugs. Meldonium is a drug that is quite often used amongst tennis players and other athletes. As of Friday the number of positive tests for the substance in 2016 across the sporting world was up to 140, this is becoming a huge problem for not only tennis athletes but athletes across all sport codes. What do we know about the substance, why was the Russian taking it and why was it banned…

Although gymnastics isn't considered a race, young elite gymnasts themselves are definitely in one. They're in a race with their own growing bodies and with all aspects of the sport that they dream of conquering to bring home Olympic gold before they expire. The physical and mental deterioration from the pressures of winning are brought on through intense training tactics implemented by coaches, their own parents, and even the governing body of gymnastics worldwide. The International Gymnastics…

10 facts about Titanic A century has cruised by since the luxury steamship R.M.S Titanic met its calamitous end in the North Atlantic, sinking two miles to the sea depths in the wake of sideswiping an iceberg amid its maiden voyage. Instead of the originally intended Port of New York, a remote ocean grave turned out to be the White Star Line's last destination in the early hours of April 15, 1912. More than 1,500 individuals lost their lives in the catastrophe. The tragedy triggered a sudden…

There are many sports, but the hardest one physically, mentally, and commitment wise is gymnastics. Gymnastics is a competitive sport in which the athletes preform acrobatic feats on four different types of apparatus. The first event female gymnasts compete in is the floor exercise. The athlete preforms a routine choreographed to music of her choice, and must complete three to four tumbling passes as well as leaps, jumps, and dance moves. The second apparatus is the vault. This piece of…

Athletes people who are role models to the next generation, people who influence how countries are ran. Many athletes use blood doping to get an extra edge over the other competitors but by many people believe this method is unfair and many people are fighting over whether this method should be banned or allowed in professional sports. Blood doping is the process where blood is transfused or injected in the body to increase red blood cells. This red blood cells are important to athletes because…

victors drafted the United Nations Charter to their primary favor by granting the permanent chairs and power of veto to themselves. Therefore, to more accurately reflect the conditions of the current world of the transcendence of state and international…

international activities and how they impact local groups. I do agree that the United Nations should grant an exemption to the International Whaling Ban for the Norwegian and Japanese people. I believe that this is in the spirit of the United Nations charter to not negatively impact the culture of any group of people. Also, if the argument from the Norwegian and Japanese governments is correct, and they species of whales they hunt are not endangered and are not likely to become so do to this…

conduct has often been alibied by a horizontal system of law which is unable to enforce consent to cooperate with treaties and charters. Unlike domestic law, which embodies an enforceable judiciary, legislature and executive, International law has no agency or organisation capable of mandatorily sentencing States for unlawful conduct. What it does have is the United Nations Charter – a set of rules and provisions with the primary intention to “regulate the relations” between independent…