Olympics

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…

Throughout the Ancient Olympic games, religion played an extremely influential role, and impended its development over time. Depictions of the Greek gods and goddesses are seen across a large amount of found artefacts created in the Ancient Olympic era. These depictions also clearly display the development throughout history of religion and beliefs in association with the games. The importance of the religious festival was high on the society, and was displayed across their currency around this…

Ancient Olympics: How does it compare to the Modern Olympics? I am a twenty-four year old Olympian from Columbia, South Carolina and I am currently practicing for the 2016 Olympics which starts in 2 months. I will practice at Brazil, so I can be adapted to the conditions in Brazil for the Olympics. I will participate in the decathlon to try to win a gold medal; I got third place last time in London. I have always wondered how the Ancient Olympics would have been. Maybe the early Olympians…

Introduction In February of 2013 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted wrestling out of the Summer Olympics expected to start in 2020. In the Olympic Games in 708 B.C., wrestling made its debut, which makes it one of the founding sports of the Olympics. This information both saddened and infuriated many people involved within wrestling communities. In order to resolve the issue, many big name wrestlers of the past had come together to save the sport. Within a 7 month period the IOC…

It has always been a dream of mine to compete long distance races at the Olympic Games. With that in mind, I hadn’t thought about the origins of distance racing at a competitive level. Without the Greeks’ establishment for the Games, the modern Olympics may never had been created. Certainly the ancient Olympics, first foot races need far more attention than they receive. A large part of the Greek education was a healthy body and a competitive spirit and so that organized one of the first…

Greece Olympics Today’s Olympics have changed a lot. The Olympics in Greece focused mainly on the gods. The greeks made sacrifices to the gods on the first and third day of the Olympic Games (“Ancient Olympics in Olympia Greece”). That is not how they focus today at all. In fact, many people don’t believe in the gods being more than myths made up by desperate people in desperate times. The athletes have changed as well, there are female athletes as well as male athletes in today's Olympics.…

Throughout time many nations have competed in the Olympics. Nations compete against each other through many athletic events. Many people come together to watch the Olympic games. World issues, such as WWII, gender equality, and the Cold War, have affected the development of the modern Olympics. Issues involving WWII has affected the Olympics’ development. During the 1936 games held in Germany, young Nazis were encouraged to prove that Nazism was superior to democracy. The day before the…

The Olympic Games is arguably the worlds largest sporting spectacle, with a long proud history. The first modern day games took place in Athens, Greece in 1896 then is repeatedly held once every four years in a chosen city. Viewed as an honor and privilege to be selected after years of arduous campaigning, cities open their doors to athletes across the globe to compete in front of millions on sports grand stage. However the games are not without controversy, behind the glitz and glamour lies a…

Many factors were vital influences upon the modern Olympic Games movement from 1892 to 2002. Political interests in the late 20th century were one such factor that shaped this movement. While the Olympics were originally intended to bring together the international community (which was the reason that Pierre de Coubertin wished to reinstate the games from ancient times), but they were also responsible for sparking intense competition between Olympians and their supporting countries as they…

Olympics through the century's The Olympic games was created originally in ancient Greece hosted in Olympia from 776 BC to 393 AD it took about 1503 years for the Olympics to take place again. The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. The Olympics started as a religious festival for Zeus at Olympia a ritual sanctuary site. All who competed where male and had the same language as well beliefs. Men would come from all over the Greek world from Spain to Turkey all…