Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Zeenat Adams Bolivar Comp 10 June 10, 2016 Doping in Sports In the 2012 London Olympic Games, more than half of the athletes were disqualified for taking banned substances. They were caught taking drugs such as steroids and human growth hormone (HGH). Athletes should not dope because it ruins their career, as well as their bodies and the integrity of the sport that they play. Performing enhancing drugs are any substance taken by athletes specifically to improve their athletic…

even being created and played for the first time. This paper will talk about sports in the 1910s. First we will talk about the Olympic Games in the 1910s. Then we will talk about significant events in sports history. Next we will discuss new records set. Lastly we will discuss medicine used in sports at the time. Olympic Games While these games weren’t the first olympic games since Roman times. They were officially opened by King Gustaf V (wikipedia.org). These games were held in Stockholm in…

The modern Olympics was also progressively becoming shaped by economic interests as shown by documents 5, 7, and 9. The Olympics offered the prospect of great economic prosperity and commercial gain to companies that sponsored them and to countries that hosted them. The mayor of Tokyo, Ryotaro Azuma, explains in document 5 that the Olympic Games of 1964, which Japan hosted, helped the country recover economically from their defeat in World War II and eventually grow as a world trade power. This…

China would use the Dragon Boat to “appease the rain gods,” but that all changed by the actions of Qu Yuan (Chittick). Qu Yuan was a very prestigious poet and minister, but, because of political corruption he decided to commit suicide. Around mid-summer he went to the Miluo River to complete this action but the local people followed him. The people were stopped by Dongting Lake. It was determined that they would compete to get across the lake to a pavilion to save the loved poet. It is said by…

Summer Olympics A tradition starting in ancient times as entertainment is now a phenomenal event for the whole world, all 6 continents. At the Summer Olympics, athletes competed and represent their country. From around the world athletes come from the four corners of the world to strive for gold, and few where a seconds can change their life. The Olympics have been around for countless years and have always been a world bonding event. The Summer Olympics have changed drastically since the first…

a pride for the host country to hold the Olympic Games, the consideration whether the cost of the Olympic Games outweighs the actual benefits brought to the host country is becoming increasingly more common among the public (has raised increasingly more public attention) throughout the world.This essay is going to discuss about the cost and benefits that the host country may obtain by holding the Olympic Games. The negative influence caused by the Olympics may include the enormous financial cost…

Started in Olympia, Greece in 1896, the quadrennial mega-event, namely the Olympic Games, has been widely spread in all around the world to draw attention among people with the sense of competition in sports. Today, the Olympic Games does not only represents the spirit of sport, but the emblem of global attention as well as achieving the world city status. The Olympic Games has certainly benefited the host cities from growing its place market, enhancing urban regeneration (Essex, 2000) and the…

expected that events will employ different types in order to aid the construction and execution. In particular a closer look at how the olympics uses social media in the construction and execution of the event will be mgjgjdkfjgodfkgkd In the lead up to the London 2012 Olympics Andy Hunt, the British Olympic Association Chief Executive announced that this year 's Olympics would also be the first ‘Twitter Games’. This would involve the active encouragement of athletes to ‘embrace all accepts…

Originally the 2014 winter olympics in Sochi were planned to cost around $12 billion, however they ended up costing Russia $50 billion. The extremely large investment that is the olympic games, rarely pays off. There have been few games that bring financial good for a host country. The olympics require constructing new venues for sports that aren’t traditionally common, and upgrades on the hosts transportation, sanitation, and security systems. To add to that, many olympic stadiums end up being…

Assignment 7 1. The correlations between the performance in the Shot Put event and the nine other events of the decathlon ranged from r(107) = .042 to .789. The two strongest correlates of the performance in the Shot Put event were the performance in the Discus Throw event, r(107) = .79, p <.001, and the 100m Dash event, r(107) = .50, p < .001. The effect size of the correlations between the performance score in the Shot Put and these two decathlon events are large, which suggests that…