Olympic Charter

discus hasn’t. At first discus was used in a pentathlon which consisted of discus, jumping, wrestling, running and javelin, and now it is its own event. “The typical discus weighed between 4 ½ to 13 pounds.” Discus was eventually added to the modern Olympic games in Athens around 1896. In the early 1900’s both single handed and double handed throwing came into play with a 4 ½ pound discus. Nowadays women’s discus weighs 1.5kg and men’s change depending on their age and experience. I started…

The Olympics and Blood Doping The Olympics are not known to be a clean event to any degree. What would you expect when you have all of the world’s top athletes in one place? Athletes have been taught from a young age to win no matter the consequences. The Olympics provide an environment where performance enhancing drugs are everywhere you look. What do the Olympic officials do about this? Close to nothing. The tests seem to be very inconsistent and rarely reliable. The Olympics are full of…

Every young gymnast dreams of competing in the Olympic Games. They picture themselves standing on the Olympic podium with a gold medal around their necks, millions of people cheering for them. Thousands of gymnasts across the world train countless hours, giving everything they have into the sport of gymnastics just for a chance of getting an Olympic title. Gymnastics is enjoyed by both athletes and spectators around the world, but have you ever stopped and wondered how this sport originated?…

your legs are close to each other while your arms are at your sides. Trampolining started in the 1930’s when George Nissen observed a safety net. He then made a trampoline and it was introduced to the world . Ever since then P.E events such as the olympics. The sport Trampoline is obviously played on…

Nadia Comaneci was an olympic gymnast in the 1970’s. She was the first women to score a perfect ten in the Olympics in 1976 when she was only 14! She was born in Onesti, Romania on November 12, 1961. She grew up in Romania in an apartment with her parents. She loved to pretend she was a gymnast with her friend, and that is where Bela Karolyi, her soon-to-be gymnastics coach. At the time, she was only six years old. Bela found her and invited her to try out at his gym. Nadia and her parents…

the money would be able to fund and support the non-revenue sports such as swimming, wrestling, golf, water polo and a lot more. Most and almost all these sports compete and participates in the every year olympics. If these sports do not get money, the athletes will slowly fade away then olympic sports will also decrease and eventually be gone. After that, then there will probably only consist of the sports, basketball, football, and baseball which are revenue sports. Conclusion: So those are…

Paralympic Cross-Country Skiing is one of the sports that will be showcased at the 2018 Pyeong Chang Winter Olympics from March 9-18. It is a sport for Skiing athletes that have physical disabilities. In the winter Paralympic games, this sport (along with the biathlon) is a part of two nordic skiing events. It involves cross-country skiing in short, middle, or long distances. There will be 20 medal events at this year's events. This year it will be the forty-second year of the event. The…

individual’s grades, height, and through competitive events such as the Olympics. The Olympics is a great example of limits at infinity because of the variations in sporting events, gender, times or scores, and has been going on since 1896. The men’s and women’s…

hard working gymnast who traveled across country just to do her best. She was separated from her family for almost two years just to train, she showed professionalism. With her determination she won all- around gymnast and group gymnastics in the Olympics. Gabrielle Douglas was born December 31, 1995. At the age of three she mastered her first cartwheel. Her older sister Arielle, a former gymnast taught her how to do a cart wheel, she mastered that and taught herself a one handed…

forcefully withdrawn from the Olympic Games. The relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States at this time was very tense. The Soviet Union wanted to maintain a friendly and socialist government on its border, and with Afghanistan in the midst of a civil war, the Soviets would be able to support the war and influence a socialist government. The Soviets then invaded Afghanistan, and the United States responded with the threat to not send a team to the Olympics, which are to be held…