Olympic Games

A : SPORT AS A UNIFIER 1. I believe that sporting events contribute significantly to unifying a nation. Sporting events are a great form of entertainment and attract huge audiences around the world. Spectators either gather at stadiums to watch live events or watch socially on their TV’s. Sports brings out admirable qualities in people such as mutual respect, team play, discipline and fair play. Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black President, used sport as a method to unify the…

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 Paralympic games were originally “a sports competition for…

inspiring documentary Called Murderball focuses on the life of paraplegic athletes. They are in the rugby US team and played in the 2004 Paralympics. This sport is a very aggressive game, in which players in a modified wheelchair clang into each other making the other player to fall out of his chair. The main purpose of the game is to take the ball to one of the extremes of the court in order to score. Each of the players in the movie became disabled for different reasons, but all of them are in…

In the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, the entire Russian track and field team was suspended and at least 120 athletes at the Rio Olympics were previously suspended for doping, and 31 of these athletes won medals in Rio (Halchin & Rollins, 2016; Aisch &Lai, 2016). The Rio Olympic Games was hosted during August 5th to August 21th in 2016. Although the Olympics was a celebrating event for the people all over the world, doping issues still aroused widespread concerns. The aim of the paper is to explain the…

the International Olympic Committee said, “the London 2012 Games have definitively served as a catalyst for development and improvements, both tangible and intangible, which would otherwise have taken decades to achieve” (HM Government, 2013). As part of the London 2012 Olympic bid, organisers promised the Games to be a ‘One Planet Olympics’, working in partnership with WWF and Bioregional. One of the five key sustainability themes is ‘inclusion: to host the most inclusive Games to date by…

The current modern Olympics is the greatest sporting event in the world. The modern Olympic games include all sports, like basketball, soccer, track and swimming. The Olympic games also include the five main continents of the world, North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Australia. The Olympics stand for the unification of all the athletes around the world to compete in these games. Furthermore, the only reason the modern Olympics are here is because of the ancient Greeks, and…

across a global scale. The Olympics has long called for “a halt to all conflicts … [and to] strive towards a more peaceful world” (The Modern Olympic Games), but multifaceted issues soon spoiled its biennial message. The FIFA World Cup slogan, “For the Game. For the World.” (FIFA), presents a sense of irony in that the World Cup creates more issues “for the world.” The World Cup also creates conflict, escalates tensions and serves as a substantial economic burden. The Olympics and the World…

Paper: Argument and Counterargument on Rio Olympics 2016 The Rio Olympics turned out much better than most people had expected. According to a website article, published by Lydia Tomkin on International Business Times, “The overall cost of the games including all Olympic-related projects has been estimated at $12 billion for which the state of Rio is responsible for a quarter, Reuters reported.” This evidence supports the claim by presenting how The Rio Olympics were systematic and efficient…

participation in the Olympics, media coverage of women’s sports and the recent women’s FIFA world cup will show that the 2000’s are the golden age for women’s sports. It wasn’t long ago that women first joined the Olympics. It was on May 14 Oct. 28 1900 that 22 women first got to partake in the Paris Olympics, in only five sports: tennis, croquet,…

I'm here to ask a very good question are you a sports fan or a sports fanatic? I looked up both definitions and the dictionary states for a fan the meaning is "an enthusiastic devotee or follower of sports or sports team" the meaning of a fanatic is "a person with an extreme enthusiasm or zeal for sports or sports team". The difference between a sports fan and a sports fanatic is a very fine line. I consider myself a fanatic, and I will give you my opinion of the fine line that separates a fan…