Sports Dominate the modern world. One of the biggest sporting events in the Olympics. A lot of aspects went into shaping the modern Olympics. The modern Olympics were shaped from the outlook of competitors, the reflection of the countries, and the economics of participating countries.
The competitors were perhaps the most important and influential aspect of modern Olympics. As depicted by Document 2, women could compete in the early Olympics but very few did. However as gender equality grew more and more women’s enthusiasm for participating increased. Hassiba Boulmerka reflected on, in Document 8, how her victories inspire more Algerian female athletes to succeed, even when society did not always encourage them. Other tensions and challenges
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arose between competing athletes. During waring times or times of tension between nations, the athletes often personified the conflict. Document 3 showed just how political the games were. American athletes, in Document 3, were biased against the Soviets because they were their political as well as athletic rivals. As shown in Document 4, teams from disputing nations were always eager to defeat each other in the games. Because Bob Matthias was an US competitor facing Soviet Union athletes he was very critical of Soviet athletes and during the games fully supported the national goal of beating the Soviets. The competing athletes really did make the games; but they also personified their countries ideals. As their athletes competed on the national stage, countries watched in hope of victory.
For the hosting country the games brought viewers from around the world. Document 6 imposed that, hosting the games was a sign of prestige. Although source 6 was biased in promoting Soviet values and view, he did exemplify the national pride that hosting the Olympics brought. This respect motivated many countries to join the games. Document 1 shows how Europeans wanted to bring the Olympics to Europe in order to facilitate peace and improve international standings. An interesting document that would provide some perspective would be a speech of a person who opposed bringing the Olympics to Europe, or any country. Even sponsoring, not necessarily hosting, the Olympics brought high profits and these high profits instituted a hot bid for these rights as shown by Document 7. The increased competition for sponsoring drove the Olympics to success and higher prestige. Overall the games reflected only the best in countries, and this standard reflected on the country's national pride. Document 10 shows how even struggling countries in the Olympics wanted to be shown better. That pressure only continued to improve the success of the
Olympics. Every year thousands of dollars are used to promote products in sporting events. The Olympics have grow to be one of the biggest. The formation of the Olympics was driven largely by money. Countries bid thousands of dollars in high tech facilities for the prestige of hosting the Olympics. Document 5 reflected on how hosting the games could rouse economic activity and increase international economic standings. This created a large incentive for countries to join the games. Another document from a country not participating in the Olympics may show what other economic strategies were being used at the time, outside of involvement with the Olympics. As more and more countries joined the prices went up, as shown in Document 9. Now companies, not countries, are responsible for the continued success of the Olympics. Document 7 shows how companies sponsoring products in the the Olympics gained enormous profits. The Japan Economic Journal probably felt this way because many of the companies the stood to gain by sponsoring and not having their country host were Japanese. Truly the foundation of the modern Olympics was motivated by economics. The modern Olympics are what they are today because of the economic incentives, the international views of other countries, and the dispositions of competitors.
There are many “first frontiers” for women. There has been the first female doctor, mathematician, astronaut, scientist, and nobel prize winner. The first female novelist, CEO, Senator, Supreme Court Justice, and PhD. Each of these women have changed the way females are perceived around the world, and have paved the way for women in each of their fields. In her essay “One of the Girls” Leslie Heywood explores the idea that the first female athletes are just as important as these other “first” women.
From 1892 to 2002 women had proven to be very powerful whether it be something as little as gaining the rights to a divorce or something as big as the rights to vote and the same opportunities in vocation, women have shown that they are willing to do whatever it takes to gain equal rights and have prospered as a result (Doc #2, #8). An anonymous photographer (Doc #2) captures an image of one of the 2% of women athletes in the 1908 Olympic games held in Great Britain, Sybil Newall. The photographer shows that a factor that stopped the Olympics was the allowance of new rights for women and new opportunities for them to rise socially and participate in the modern Olympic games. The photographer shows this because during this time period in Western Europe women gained the ability to represent their country or nation at a new level, similar to what happened with woman’s suffrage. Hassiba Boulmerka (Doc #8) an Algerian competitor in the 1992 Olympics held in Spain believes that her victories give her confidence and she represents women aspiring to be athletes and to achieve it they need to b...
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In the past the Olympic games were used as a way for the Greeks to honor their gods. Today the games are not an honoring but more of a social gathering. What’s great about the games today is that everyone has equal opportunity to compete. No matter your gender, size, ethnicity, or wealth, all you have to do is work hard and
The Olympics are supposed to be a time of peace and a time where countries could come together and be free from politics. The Olympics are also a time where nations should put away their differences and celebrate the reason why they came to participate in the games, which was to play sports. Throughout history, many of the Olympics have lived up to this expectation. At the same time, there have also been some Olympics that have not lived up to this expectation because they have been experienced boycotts, political protests, and even violence. The politics in the Olympics need to be kept out because it there is no place for it. The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow is an example of one Olympics that was not free from politics because of the boycott started by the U.S.
The Olympic Games are the leading worldwide sport event that held every 4 years, featuring thousands of international athletes from more than 200 nations participating in a variety of sports competitions. Although the Games are about winning the sports competitions, they also provide a platform for the nations throughout the world to learn different cultures and share uniqueness. The Games are important, and have to be held because they transmit a message of friendship and peaceful between nations.
Hosting the Olympics comes with many perks for such as, prestige, the creation of new facilities and countless amounts of benefits. With so many things the Olympics has to offer, there can be numerous reasons why countries compete to be elected as the hosting country for the Olympics. The most common reason countries want to host the Olympic is because of its potential ability to improve the country’s economy significantly. With the entire world participating in the Olympics, the hosting country can market...
As we all know, Beijing, China is the host for Summer Olympics 2008, were a major international multi-sport event from August 8 to August 24, 2008. Even though Olympic Beijing is all dress up, but no one is going because the organizer was struggling to handle an unexpected inside Summer Games venues. The Olympics officials feel disappointed because so many empty seats at nearly every event and the lack of pedestrian traffic throughout the park. To overcome the problems the officials are busing in teams of state-trained cheer squads to help fill the empty seats and improve the atmosphere and encourage residents to apply for access to the heavily secured park.
Modern Day Olympics are a huge tradition that sweeps the screens of televisions across the world. Competitors take the arena with uniforms that dawn their countries colors and designs that are meant to resemble their designated flag. For months the news is centered around the games; the preparation, the athletes, and of course the competition. Countries aren 't obsessed, they are inspired and full of pride seeing athletes from their country compete and show their incredible skill. This tradition dates back to ancient Greece where the games began. Tony Perrottet writes about the traditions of the ancient game in his book The Naked Olympics.
We are able to see that hosting the Olympics plays an important role in the development of a country. Despite having a number of valid reasons to oppose the hosting of Olympics, we are able to reap more long-term benefits. Rebranding the country to make it outstanding enough to attract tourist and boost tourism head on. For this reason, it brings in more income for the country and creates more job opportunities in the tourism sector. This would indirectly create job chances in industrial sector. Unemployment rate goes down significantly which are able to attract more people towards the country. Citizens will be more patriotic and not wanting to leave the country. There is so much potential for a country to improve themselves, with all being said, I couldn’t disagree with hosting the
Finish, Finish, Go, and Go you just set the new world record. Every four years lots of people gather around a pool cheering for Olympians. It is a very noisy place. A lot of Olympians that are part of the summer Olympics are very athletic, they swim all year around. The swimming Olympic history and background is very interesting. They have done so many new things over that past couple of years. They come out with new rules every year to make things more fair and challenging. There are a lot of events and tons of records that have been broke. A lot of Olympians have set future goals to stride for. I was swimming the 200 meter fly I was at a really good time when I had 50 meter sprint left at the end all I could think about was I’m going to set the new world record. Olympic swimming is a very fun sport it is very athletic. Every year in the summer time every one always sits around a TV watching this it is very famous in America. Swimmers from all around the world come and here and compete. There is a lot of competition there I have found out a lot about the history of swimming. There are a lot of events and tons of records that have been broke. A lot of Olympians have set future goals to stride for.
Sports may have impacted our culture much more then we thought it would, and keeps impacting. Sports have affected some of the most important aspects of life, such as jobs and money. It has also affected things as little as who we look up to and how we dress. Culture means “the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.” The definition of sports is “an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.” So when we put two and two together we get a a nation or world that has changed due to sports. Back in the mid and late 1900’s sports were used to see whose way of life was better. As time went on and keeps going on, we
Sports are apart of human society, for centuries it has been difficult to conceive of any human civilization consisting entirely of work, education, relationships, and entertainment alone. The media plays a major role in the way society views sports today. As time has evolved sports have become apart of the American culture. The does not only influence the sport at hand but it also affects the way that societies sees the athletes. Most believe that since athletes are paid outrageous amounts of money they are considered to be role models to younger generations. The way that the athlete lives his or her life heavily influences the way the media will portray them.
Sports throughout history have shown close ties and relations to values and cultures of a society. Sports and competition have adapted and grown as the world and people have grown and developed. Sports are often seen as simple consequence of the industrial revolution. The Impact of increased urbanization, better communication and transportation, as well as more time and income for specialization, all led to the creation of sports. (szymanski). In essence As the public sphere grew so did the concept of sport. (Szymanski). Even the impact colonization had on spreading sports, shows the congruence between the development of society and development of modern sports. What make sports very unique is that they always bring about a sense of culture
Introduction Today, the Olympic Games are the world's largest pageant of athletic skill and competitive spirit. They are also displays of nationalism, commerce and politics. Well-known throughout the world the games have been used to promote understanding and friendship among nations, but have also been a hotbed of political disputes and boycotts. The Olympic games started thousands of years ago and lasted over a millennium.. The symbolic power of the Games lived on after their demise, and came to life again as the modern Olympic Games being revived in the last century. Both the modern and Ancient Olympics have close similarities in there purpose and in there problems.