Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics

leader at the last possible moment, winning by one hundredth of a second. The perfect record is intact. When people think of swimming, they most likely think of Michael Phelps. He has won 28 olympic medals, 23 of them being gold. He also won 8 gold medals in one Olympics, the most ever won in a single Olympics. Most people consider him the best swimmer and olympian of all time and some even consider him the best athlete of all time. However, while Michael Phelps was a hard worker, his early…

competing in the Olympics. Just like today, the children of Ancient Greece played games like checkers and marbles for fun. The people of Ancient Greece had a wide variety of things to do with their free time. Now a worldwide event, the olympics started in ancient Greece as a form of competition and entertainment. The ancient Greek olympic games began in 776 B.C. The first Olympics was dedicated to the god Zeus and was celebrated in Olympia, Greece. Just like today, the olympic games back then…

he still currently lives in South Africa. His parents are Neville and Bev Parkin. He is also married to Ingrid. He has 2 daughters; Shayla and Leya Parkin, they are also swimmers. Terence Parkin has had many accomplishments including; being in the Olympics in Sydney and winning silver for 200 meters breaststroke. Also he was in the World Championship and won in Athens in 2000 winning silver for 200 meter breaststroke, and also in Athens 2000 he won silver for 400 meters…

Every four years somewhere in the world the summer Olympics are held for this reason countries around the world compete to see who has the best athletes. It’s a great opportunity for the hosting country to make so economic gains as well as being able to show the rest of the world their culture. Although the games bring many positives, this year 's games in Rio, Brazil are questionable because of the virus that has become viral and is spreading rapidly around the region. The Zika virus is spread…

The Image of Female Athletes The Summer Olympics are a time where the top athletes compete for their countries on a world stage. Reporters capitalize on these events by making the Olympics their topic of coverage. One way in which the media has capitalized on the Olympics is by focusing on female athletes. However, much of the focus on female athletes undermines the athletes’ accomplishments by focusing on their sexuality and femininity instead of on their athleticism and achievements. In an…

select an eligible city to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. Competing against five other global, post-industrial cities, London, England was selected to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. As the chosen host for the 2012 Summer Olympics, the city of London highlights the social, economic and cultural benefits of planning, production and execution of a major global event on a world stage. As a global, post-industrial city embodying the morals and values of the Olympic Games, the hosting of a global…

entered the junior world championships, all of Jamaica was behind him. Only 16 years old, he eased down the final stretch and broke the Junior World record with a 20.13 in the 200 meter final. Qualified to represent Jamaica in the Olympics, Usain entered Beijing in 2008 with twinkle toes. He easily broke the 100m world record, 200m world record, and 4×100m world record, but the 4×100m world record was stripped from the Jamaican team as Nesta Carter was found to be doping. Then, as he entered the…

Tommie Smith was the Olympics gold medalist in the 1968 Olympic games which was held in Mexico City that year. Smith smashed the world record with a time of 19.8 seconds. His teammate John Carlos won the bronze that same year and competition. Both Carlos and Smith were part of an organization called the Olympic Project for Human Right or otherwise known as the OPHR. The founder of the organizations was a sociologist and college professor, Harry Edwards. Tommie Smith was one of the original…

The Olympics have been causing several problems in recent and not so recent years, putting many countries and cities into financial debt. To stop this we must put permanent sites on our building list for the Olympics and keep those the few things on that list. Over the years the Olympics have been hosted we are shockingly finding that each year those hosting cities will spend billions of dollars on unnecessary things, such as facilities and equipment. The host for the 2016 games, Brazil,…

Mary Abigail "Abby" Wambach (born June 2, 1980) is an American retired soccer player, coach, two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA Women's World Cup champion. A six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award, Wambach has been a regular on the U.S. women's national soccer team since 2003 earning her first cap in 2001. As a forward, she currently stands as the highest all-time goal scorer for the national team and holds the world record for international goals for both female and…