Winter Olympic Games

four years the world gets ready for the Olympics. We root for our perspective countries and form strong bonds with the competitors through our TV screens. However, one never stops to think about what goes in to making this large event a reality. It takes seven years from the day a host city is chosen to the actual opening ceremony (IOC, 2015). Behind the scenes of this movement is the International Olympic Committee. The IOC is a large component of the Olympic Movement. In addition to making…

Introduction London already hosted for three times for the Olympics Games event and London is the city that hosted the most Summer Olympics. The London Olympics Stadium is located at a diamond shaped island. The design of the London Olympics Stadiums need to design against some basic needs of the large games stadium such as long term, limited land and develop the architectural language of venue design. Because, sustainability is one of a favorite development method in nowadays and as one would…

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…

Case analysis: P&G “Thank You Mom” The Olympic games are something special that brings the entire world together once every two years. It takes thousands of people working together to make it happen. During the two weeks that the Olympics are going on, the entire world is watching and presents companies with a great opportunity to show off their brand in a good light and associate with a highly popular event. One of the companies that exploits this the best is Procter and Gamble better know as…

Gapminder is a non-profit venture that provides free statistics in visual forms of animated bubble chart, bubble map and mountain chart known as Trendalyzer. The Gapminder team creates surveys online using the survey software called SurveyGizmo to collect their data. It helped portray the data in a way that enable users to understand without being confused by the complicated conventional lines and bar graphs. Users can access the data straight from the website or download an offline version into…

Women are becoming more vocal on gender issues. And, they’re becoming more involved in closing a gender gap within sports, becoming a major part of the sporting industry on and off the field. Slowly changing over time, sport is no longer “a man’s game.” Still, as women drive forward with inequality issues, women and women’s sport often take a back seat to men at the steering wheel. From the advent of sport, and in particular due to university sport, men have always had the upper hand over sports…

A: Sport as a Unifier 1. I believe sport has brought people together all around the world. It has the potential to unite a country. Sporting events such as the Olympics and the World Cup bring nations together to compete, not in war, but in games and events. An example of sport as a unifier is when South Africa hosted the Soccer World Cup in 2010, it had a huge positive effect on the national morale. In addition, all the construction that went on to prepare the country’s infrastructure and…

Sport does play an important role in Nation building Introduction According to the Cambridge dictionary sport can be defined as “a game, competition, or activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules, for enjoyment and/or as a job.”[1] Throughout history sport has been used as a binding tool that allows nations and its people to rally up along sports teams in support. This is an occasion where many people are bound together under a unifying cause. In this…

The FIFA World Cup, or more commonly refered to as the World Cup is a global sports event that is organized once every 4 years. The most recent World Cup is hosted in the largest country in South America, Brazil, which is held from the 12th of June till the 13th of July of this year. The event has caused many troublesome effects on Brazil as a whole such as, rising inflation, decreasing jobs after the event, and spending government resources badly. According to Oxford English Dictionary,…

1996 it was televised all across the world. This all began with a press conference that included star players such as Rebecca Lobo, Lisa Leslie, and Sheryl Swoopes. Later that month, a man Val Ackerman was named First president of the WNBA. The First game began on June 21, 1997, starting two teams The New York Liberty and Los Angeles Sparks. The WNBA is currently about to enter their 19th season. Success The WNBA has multiple attribute that have contributed to their successful since they…