Olympic Charter

to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum News states, “It was later enlarged for the 1932 Summer Olympic Games from its original 1923 capacity of 75,144 seats to 105,574 seats. The Olympic cauldron torch was added ….as well as the Olympic rings symbols.” Since the Olympics was a big event around the world the coliseum was redesigned, modeled, expanded, and temporally received a new name Los Angeles Olympics Stadium. This change has created a new modernized coliseum for any sport. The Los Angeles…

In 1946 George Orwell wrote, ”Politics and the English Language," the essay explains the relationships between bad writing and bad thinking as well as the political effects. According to Orwell, Modern English and especially written English are full of bad habits; As a result, people imitate each other, and the bad habits spread. Orwell argues that by following the rules he presented people will stop the tendency of writing or speaking bad English. One person that follows these rules is John F.…

State Track and Field Around this time last year, my brother, his 4x100 relay team, and hundreds of other athletes competed in Jefferson City, Missouri at the state track meet. The meet lasted for two days and those two days were completely opposite of each other. The first day was rainy and cloudy, there wasn’t many people there, and there wasn’t much excitement. The second day was nothing even comparable to that. It was sunny and hot, there were hundreds and hundreds of people there, and the…

Muhammad Ali lived during the time of segregation. Muhammad who formally had the name Cassius Clay but changed it later was the first born between his brother. Just like his dad,Ali was a charmer and performed for everyone. Ali won gold in the Rome olympics and that was his first great accomplishment. On February 25, 1964 Muhammad Ali fought heavyweight champion Sonny Liston. Ali successfully defeated Liston and became heavyweight champ. The press and most people didn’t think Ali could beat…

Michael Fred Phelps is the most renown swimmer in the entire world. Being the most decorated Olympian with twenty-two Olympic medals. He was the youngest person, at fifteen years old, to compete in the 2000 summer Olympics. He was breaking records left and right. Many people started to notice Michael. He became a professional swimmer at age sixteen and his whole life changed from then on out. This legendary swimmer was born on June thirtieth, 1985. His dad was an all around athlete so…

The Sochi Olympics were fraught with controversies and negative press to a grand extent. However, through the triumphs of the games athletes, Russia was able to attain substantial political gains and recognition. For example, Russia was the top-performing nation with 11 gold medals and a total of 29 medals respectively. By winning the majority of medals, Russia was able to gain politically by demonstrating to the Russian people and the world the strength and tenacity of its athletics.…

One of the most ancient sports we have today is wrestling. It can date back to the ancient Greek empire, as people would fight against each other in the first Olympics. Wrestling has changed a lot since then, and well for starters people don’t fight to the death anymore. There are a few types of wrestling that are played today Greco Roman, Folk, Freestyle and more recently Female Wrestling. Wrestling is filled with rules, regulations, and a certain scoring guide to help make sport more…

thirteen but by the time he hit the age of sixteen he became a triathlete. In 1989 and 1990 Lance was the national sprint-course triathlon champion. During his senior year of high school Lance was invited to Colorado Springs to train with the U.S Olympic development team…

As a small child, I spent summers in pools, ponds, and lakes. Swimming came naturally to me, so I became a swimmer for my local swim team. Over the next seven years, I made close friendships with other swimmers my age while swimming became life. I attended every practice, even though others wouldn’t. My race times usually came close to the qualifying times of zone championships, but I never qualified. While this did feel like a failure, it wasn’t my greatest failure. The path to my greatest…

1920s were a time that the Olympics really became an event for the entire world. According to John Horne in Understanding the Olympics, “after Athens 1896 the next three Olympics were mostly for trade fairs but it was not until the 1920s that the profile of the events began to grow” (Horne). What this means is the Olympics really did not become a spectator event until the twenties. However, this event is a popular event throughout the world. Chris Hallinan says that, “Olympics in the 1920s were…