Swimming at the Summer Olympics

According to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum News states, “It was later enlarged for the 1932 Summer Olympic Games from its original 1923 capacity of 75,144 seats to 105,574 seats. The Olympic cauldron torch was added ….as well as the Olympic rings symbols.” Since the Olympics was a big event around the world the coliseum was redesigned, modeled, expanded, and temporally received a new name Los Angeles Olympics Stadium. This change has created a new modernized coliseum for any sport. The Los…

years old. Her birthday is on May 2, 1983 and she was born in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia. Slovenia is a country next to Italy. Tina Maze is a World Cup ski racer and a double Olympic gold medalist. Tina is the most successful Slovenian ski racer in history with a career that culminated with two gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Maze first won her World Cup race at Solden, Austria during the season of 2003, but not by herself. Maze, tied three ways with two other skiers. In 2004 season, Tina…

walk, Ray set his sights on competing in jumping in track & field. He made a name for himself at Purdue and eventually went on to compete in the Olympics. He was never defeated throughout his Olympic career (1900-1908). In fact, up until 2012 when Michael Phelps won his 10th and 11th individual event gold medals, Ray held the record for the most Olympic individual event gold medals (10).…

Imagine yourself being stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere with a group of people you’ve never met in your entire life. Trying to keep everyone alive and under control. There is no order on this island since no one listens to anyone, no authority. So what do you do, you find something that gets a hold of everyone's attention. Something that is a collective ideal bringing everyone together. In our society we have this exact system that is in place, where we use one object or event to…

Oscar Pistorius is a name most athletic households know. He was the double amputee runner in the London 2012 Olympics. Pistorius had double blades on his legs thanks to biomechanics. However, many spectators viewed his blade legs as cheating, and an unfair advantage against the able body competitors, because they were engineered to help him be fast. Biomechanics does not only replace body parts for amputees but also uses one’s own body to reach its own potential. Furthermore, a responsible…

State Track and Field Around this time last year, my brother, his 4x100 relay team, and hundreds of other athletes competed in Jefferson City, Missouri at the state track meet. The meet lasted for two days and those two days were completely opposite of each other. The first day was rainy and cloudy, there wasn’t many people there, and there wasn’t much excitement. The second day was nothing even comparable to that. It was sunny and hot, there were hundreds and hundreds of people there, and the…

committee to secure golf in the Olympics, better that than bribing people on important international votes, though that's probably happening too. The IOC as well as the involved countries may have smelled money, but it wasn’t from bribes, it was from advertising revenue. Do you know the number of people who watched the Olympics? Well, neither do I, but it’s legions of people, so that lets people ask for a large wad of money from companies who want to advertise at the Olympics or in between at…

Muhammad Ali lived during the time of segregation. Muhammad who formally had the name Cassius Clay but changed it later was the first born between his brother. Just like his dad,Ali was a charmer and performed for everyone. Ali won gold in the Rome olympics and that was his first great accomplishment. On February 25, 1964 Muhammad Ali fought heavyweight champion Sonny Liston. Ali successfully defeated Liston and became heavyweight champ. The press and most people didn’t think Ali could beat…

The chaos wars, A tournament for fighters held once a year. Every year the world's greatest fighters travel from across the globe to participate in the world's greatest and bloodiest contest. The victor of the tournament gains immense wealth, fame, and prestige which guarantees fighters every year. The tournament is held in a grand open air coliseum known as the “ Blood garden”. The Blood Garden is capable of seating approximately 200,000 people and is revered as the world's largest stadium. Of…

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…