Olympic Games

Hosting the Olympic games is not advantageous for the host city is because of how incredibly expensive the games are. The cost of hosting the games has been rising and now it costs a country billions of dollars. The games cost cities and countries billions of dollars to fund and produce. The 2008 Beijing Games, and the 2014 Sochi Winter Games cost each country around 50 billion dollars. This translates to an average of $120 million per event in Beijing, and $520 million per event in Sochi (Why).…

Induced Economic Benefits The Olympic Games can provide the economic benefits not only direct and indirect benefits but also induced benefits. Induced economic benefits are the results of the direct and indirect economic benefits. Because of the direct and indirect economic benefits, the Olympic Game have improved the infrastructure and economic environment in the local, even whole the country. Subsequently, the induced economic benefits that can enhance the host countries’ economic image and…

Introduction On the brink of the second World War (WWII) the Germany National Olympic Committee (NOC) won the rights to host the 1936 Olympic Games. As the event quickly approached, all eyes were on the new Nazi government and its rapidly increasing marginalization of Jewish and non-Aryan citizens. In 1972 the world again turned its eyes to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) during an era of Cold War threats and national divides. This time however, the world watched Germany prepare for a…

Miracle On Ice Miracle—defined by Miriam-Webster as, “an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs.” That’s what the dictionary would say, but the accompanying picture would show the 1980 USA Men’s Olympic hockey team with their gloves in the air celebrating their impossible victory over the powerhouse USSR. Widely considered as the greatest moment in sports history, the “Miracle On Ice” saw a group of college kids defeat arguably the greatest international hockey…

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…

The Problem In the 2016 Rio Olympic Games there were "264 men and 294 women"(Meet Team USA) who competed for the U.S. Olympic Team. The number of women competing in athletics at every level is increasing, therefore it is important to note how women are portrayed and perceived in the media. There are issues to be brought up about the sexualization of female athletes particularly when compared to their male counterparts who are usually not sexualized. Women, as a whole, are sexualized and…

Wrestling is one of the oldest sports. They have found cave drawings of it that dated up to 15,000 years ago. Wrestling was very popular in the Olympic games. It originated in Greece as a way to teach soldiers hand-to-hand combat. It was most popular during the middle ages. There are four ways of winning a wrestling match. One, you can win by major decision which is winning by points. Two, you can win by technical fall which is where you win by 15 points and its an automatic win. Three, you…

also integrated wrestling techniques into their hand-to-hand combat systems as well as other martial arts.Wrestling is considered the oldest sport known to mankind; although there are multiple styles of wrestling the two that are performed in the Olympics are Freestyle and Greco-Roman. Just as they stay prostitution is the oldest profession known, Wrestling…

The religion of ancient Greece influenced the art and architecture of the civilisation, which can still be seen today. The religion of ancient Greece is where they worshiped a god that influenced there lifestyle the most, for example if you were a fisherman you would pray to Poseidon the god of the sea. They would build temples such as the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion to please the gods (Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, 15/11/15). They also built statues to represent gods in human form. Some of…

She was labeled the fastest women on earth and could outrun just about any female athlete. She was also the first female that won 5 gold medals in the Olympic games. But all these glory and fame came crashing down when the Marion Jones steroids story surfaced. Marion Jones was stripped of all her 5 gold medals that she won in the Sydney Olympic games because she was found guilty of using anabolic steroids. The use of anabolic steroids in competition is against the law and consider as cheating.…