Olympic Games

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.…

Earnings of Olympic athletes: a case study of m/f Track sprinters & Distance runners (1500 and / or Marathon) Introduction: Olympic athletes seek above all to be successful in their sporting field, hoping to achieve the Olympic dream of achieving a place on dais for their country. In order to be successful however Olympians are required to complete intensive training and cooperate with like-minded health professionals whom help them achieve their goal. But how does a single athlete competing…

Olympian athletes to view before competition. Most scholars believe that the pediments are statements concerning hubris or dike, ethos, and arete. Barringer presents the ideas that the pediments are to inspire the athletes participating in the Olympic games, by displaying positive models about heroism and glory. The sculptures on the temple display three different topics: athletics and warfare, gender roles and premarital rites, and Olympia as a display place of glory. Many of the scenes include…

attempts to discover a performance enhancing drug that was lacking in serious side effects. This did not stop them from reaching common knowledge across the sporting community, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) established a medical commission to fight doping in 1967 – the Winter Olympics the following year became the first to institute compulsory drug testing. Anabolic steroids joined the list of banned substances in 1975 It is around the time of the blanket ban on anabolic steroids…

Women are becoming more vocal on gender issues. And, they’re becoming more involved in closing a gender gap within sports, becoming a major part of the sporting industry on and off the field. Slowly changing over time, sport is no longer “a man’s game.” Still, as women drive forward with inequality issues, women and women’s sport often take a back seat to men at the steering wheel. From the advent of sport, and in particular due to university sport, men have always had the upper hand over sports…

Cold War. After researching the topic, I noticed the several of the references describe a link between the victory of the USA hockey team over team USSR. This helped me create my thesis which states: When team USA beat team USSR in the 1980 Olympic games, they brought home much more than a medal, they inspired their fellow American's with the hope they needed to be victorious over the Soviet Union and bring a period known as the Cold War. My next step was to decide what content to use for my…

their dream of owning a farm, just as Jordyn Wieber had a commitment to competing at the Olympics. Similarly, Lennie and George and Jordyn Wieber must make sacrifices in order to bring themselves closer to success within their goals. George and Candy are displeased by the unfulfillment of their dream of owning a farm and Jordyn Wieber was discontented she could not fulfill her dream of competing in the Olympics. As seen in the examples of George, Lennie and Jordyn Wieber, the desire for…

summer of 2015 I was given the opportunity of a lifetime. Over 7,000 athletes with just about the same number of volunteers and tons and tons of spectators all gathered at the Los Angeles Coliseum for the Opening Ceremony of the 2015 Special Olympic World Games and I was lucky enough to be a volunteer at such a wonderful event. Although this happened recently, I wouldn’t have been able to be given this opportunity if I didn’t first start three years ago as the youngest coach…

Ancient Greco-Roman Impact On My Life The Greeks and the Romans have had a big influence on many civilizations throughout the ages because of their great empires, unique inventions, and types of battle strategies. Over 2000 years later and we’re still inspired by many things they have made and some we still use today in our current lifetime. Throughout the ages their discoveries have changed the tide of war, the livelihood in cities, and even forms of transportation and we still use some today.…

States alone, with 24.1 million players across the nation. The sport of golf was created in the 1300's in Scotland, and has been around longer than all modern-day professional sports combined. The 11th century French game ¨Pallemaille¨ or ¨Jeu de mail¨, and the 13th century Dutch game ¨Kolven¨ are arguably predecessors to golf. The oldest golf club in America is St. Andrew's Golf Club in Yonkers, New York, built in 1888, 14 years before the sport of Football was even created in 1892. Golf…