Summer Olympic Games

The 1980 Summer Olympic protest was wrong of all countries participating because politics should never interfere with athletics. The protesting of the olympics demonstrated that it hurts the athletes the most and harms the game itself. The first instance of politics affecting the Olympics was in 1936 when Germany hosted and tried to promote the idea of superiority with its Aryan race. Adolf Hitler used the Olympic’s as a platform to show how great Germany was after being rebuilt after the…

Decription The product that was chosen to be brought back to the future would be the Nike PreCool Vest. The Nike PreCool Vest is simply a vest that allows athletes to cool their working muscles down so that they can improve their performance to a better degree. This vest is used to cool down core body temperature so that athletes can compete at a better rate; with the core cooling, athletes can often last 21% longer than without it (NikeNews, 2008). The vest in general clings to the wearer to…

His crushed many Olympic Athletes dreams, but even though they might not have gotten to represent the United States at the Olympic games they still stood behind President Carter and supported his decision. From the eyes of Olympic swimmer Glenn Mills, he and the other United States summer Olympic athletes watched their fellow winter Olympic athlete’s success and became more inspired to fulfill their own Olympic Dreams (Caraccioli & Caraccioli, 2001, p. 66). As the athletes watched on, they…

We just finished watching the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Korea. I was inspired by watching people like Mikaela Shiffrin, Red Gerard, Sean White, and the United States Women’s Hockey Team represent our country and lead us to victory. I find it no small coincidence that we’ve been asked to examine Simon Kuper’s essay, where he asks the provocative question: “Why do we still watch the Olympics?” This article was published in the sports column of the Financial Times, and it was created for…

the Olympic Games. Many countries meet together in competitions to show their strength in many different categories. Whether it is winter or summer, there’s always something to cheer about. Every four years we cheer for the United States in snowboarding, gymnastics, etc., but how many of us know about the very first Olympic Games? Not many people could tell you much about them, so that is what this article is about. The first recorded Olympic Games took place in Greece in 776 B.C. These games…

As I was watching this year’s Winter Olympic games in PyeongChang, South Korea, was amazed at all the workers, buildings, and other various infrastructure that went into these games. It was quite spectacular of a show. I remember the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing, china, as one that stands out to me in the design of the “birds nest”, and the exquisite opening and closing ceremonies. Along with having a huge performance, and the infrastructure behind it means a lot of financial efforts. After…

people have always looked for new ways to entertain themselves. The Olympics are a prominent example of people's attempts to entertain themselves. The Olympics have been held to honor a god or a nation. They provide the entire world with a reason to compete and bring honor to their nation, but it wasn't always this way. In ancient Greece the Olympics were created to honor the mighty god Zeus. Now things have changed. The Olympics are now a worldwide event where qualifying countries gather at a…

means taking illegal substances such as steroids or human growth hormones to get a head of the game. We know that Major League baseball has had a problem with the use of steroids. Even with the greatest athletes in the world. They will do anything to get that gold medal. The Olympics is notorious for having athletes test positive for steroid use. Every since the Greeks and the start of the Olympics athletes have used enhancers, the Greeks used sesame seeds. The Greeks thought the…

when you hear the word Olympics? Does your mind go to the games that happen every other summer and winter? Or are you one of those people that thinks all the way back into time, about how the Olympics started and why they started? For me, I think of the Olympics as something that allows you to dream big. “The Olympics show that your dreams can come true if you work hard. It’s not IMPOSSIBLE.” Jencarlos Canela hit the Olympics right on the head with that quote. The Olympics is somewhere to dream,…

became strong, but the reader got to see her struggles and her triumphs throughout the book. Nextly, I always wondered if she was an Olympian and all throughout the book she talks about the Olympics or imagining the Olympics, “That was my entire life for the better part of the year leading up to the 2004 Olympics.” (Rousey 69). I personally did not know that she was an Olympian so that answered one of my questions about her exciting life. Ronda Rousey life was very mysterious and not open, but…