Winter Olympic Games

Flying across the ice, the two time U.S. gold medalists Alex and Maia Shibutani danced their hearts out to Paradise by Coldplay only to lose their third gold medal at the National Figure Skating Championships. Their dance and song choice touched the lives of people all around the world, but wasn’t enough to hold their own against the skaters to come. Although the title was the lost, the words to the Shibutanis song of choice speaks volumes. Songwriter Christopher Anthony pulls at the string’s of…

more than a decade with the New York Rangers, the goaltender from Are, Sweden, has been one of the top players of his generation and one of the top goaltenders of all time. Since arriving in the NHL in 2005-06, Lundqvist has won the Vezina Trophy, Olympic gold and led the League in victories. The Rangers selected Lundqvist in the seventh round (No. 205) in the 2000 NHL Draft while he was playing for Frolunda in the Swedish Junior League. Over the next five years, Lundqvist was the top…

why should these resorts be allowed to prohibit snowboarders on their slopes? Snowboarding is a rather new sport, with the first snowboards initially introduced to the world in 1965 by Sherman Poppen. Though snowboarding wasn't introduced as an Olympic sport until 1998. On the other hand, skiing has been around for millennia, with the first recorded skies discovered to have existed in 4000 bc, though it…

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the Olympics. In their very first Olympics, the Helsinki Olympics of 1952, they matched the Americans in the medal count. This dominance continued through most of the Soviet era. However, this dominance was not free from politics. There were instances of boycotts, during the ‘80 and ‘84 Olympics, from both the USA and USSR due to political tensions abroad. Many decades later, these same political tensions are still present during the Olympics.When Russia went to build the 2014 Winter Olympics in…

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…

The Olympics in Sochi have multiple dialectical relationships between the events that took place, the host country of Sochi, and the global stage of economics, technology, politics, and culture. The events in Sochi have a dialectal relationship with Sochi in that they occurred there, the people in Sochi and the terrain of Sochi also effected the way the events were run, and how the fans of different countries interacted during the events. The events in Sochi also effected Sochi economically, it…

attempts to discover a performance enhancing drug that was lacking in serious side effects. This did not stop them from reaching common knowledge across the sporting community, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) established a medical commission to fight doping in 1967 – the Winter Olympics the following year became the first to institute compulsory drug testing. Anabolic steroids joined the list of banned substances in 1975 It is around the time of the blanket ban on anabolic steroids…

It was the time when XXII Winter Olympic Games and XI Winter Paralympics were taking place in Sochi. The procedures for the development of a new classification system were included in the concept of the Federal Target Program “The Development of the domestic and inbound tourism in the Russian…

The Olympics have been around for centuries an event that has been life changing for the participants and the countries that get the privilege to host as well. For centuries now, we have gotten to see the evolution of one of the greatest events ever thought of allowing athletes the opportunity to compete at the highest level, while representing their countries proudly. This event would not be what it is today if it weren 't for the Ancient Greeks getting it started in 776 B.C.E. Since getting it…