Winter War

respect for medical and sport ethics, and equality for all competing athletes” (International Olympic committee). This commission is created after a cyclist was killed during a race. The IOC started drug testing the following year in 1968 at the winter Olympics. But the drug tests that were done did not pick up anabolic steroids at that time, and it was a small number that actually were tested. But the IOC would begin to crack down on the use of steroids. By the 1972 Olympic games the IOC…

For my comparative analysis I will be analyzing and comparing the 2014 NHL winter classic, featuring the Toronto Maple Leafs against the Detroit Red Wings. For the AFL match I will be analyzing game 7 of the 2015 AFL season featuring the North Melbourne kangaroos against Essendon bombers. Pre-game show In the NHL match, my video source does not include a full pre-game coverage show. However, the video coverage opens with both teams standing on the blue line, with each team standing on the…

To be straightforward, the Olympic Games are an international sports competition in which more than 13,000 athletes from over 200 countries compete in a variety of events. But when the history behind the Games, the entertainment witnessed by the spectators, and the dedication of the athletes are taken into consideration, the Games become more than just the greatest athletes competing on the world’s largest stage, they transform into a place for unity, sportsmanship, and extreme competition. For…

“The Montreal Olympics can no longer lose money than a man can have a baby”1 Jean Drapeau, Mayor of Montreal from1960 to 1986 famously said. It was to be the first Canadian-hosted Olympics in our 76-year participation in the Games. However, the Games were marred by accidents, construction failures, and massive costs to the population of Montreal. The crown jewel of the first Canadian Games, the Games of the XXI Olympiad, was to be the shining new Olympics Stadium, estimated at an initial $134…

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,…

Being a broke college student isn’t fun. Being a broke college athlete is worse. Broke college students aren’t just needing the money but they need the balance of time, work, and study also. No college student, let alone student athletes would ever turn down the thought of being paid for their services. So why isn’t the NCAA trying to help our college athletes out? College isn’t cheap. College students have financial obligations outside of the classroom; being on scholarship does not lighten the…

judging the skater, and they judge on style, creativity, footwork, and how well she performed her leaps and spin (The Big Event, Women’s Figure skating). One person that had a big impact on figure skating was Sonja Henie. She competed in the first winter Olympics. She was only around fifteen years old at that time. (Hasday 31). In 1928 she won the gold medal, and also won the gold medals two years after that as well. She was one of the reasons why figure skating is so popular in the Olympics…

2014 Winter Games. They informed the prospective bidders for hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics of the changes to the contract, which acts as a binding agreement between the IOC and the country chosen. The new clause would be based on principle six of the Olympic charter. The clause is “[a]ny form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic…

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…

Topic 3 Discuss the pros and cons of the various ways in which males and females are classified for the purpose of playing sport. Which way should be used at the elite level, such as the Olympic Games? Why? Which way should be used at the amateur level. What are some of the problems and how might they be overcome? Purpose of classified female and male in sports, because Females carry more fat than males, it and advantage in sports such as swimming, but in running and other sports it becomes a…