Citius, Altius, Fortius. In other words, “Faster, Higher, Stronger.” That is the Olympic motto which is also tagged with the five rings. The Olympic Rings are an honor. The five rings represent the five inhabited continents uniting together in one place. The five rings represent something else to me; it represents the five characteristics an Olympian has…the five characteristics I have. The blue ring represents determination. As an athlete, it is important that you do not give up no matter how difficult it may get. Every athlete does not win every time, so when you lose, you must get back up and try again. My coach and I trained so hard for the 50-yard breaststroke, my weakest event, yet I was trying to break the pool record. I was less than half a second off the record. When I got up on the block, I could feel the eyes of the spectators staring at me, I could feel my muscles tightening up, and I could feel the blisters forming on my hands from gripping the block. I dove in and I thought “perfect dive, Furgeson” and I swam. The wall right in front me…I slapped it…looked up to the timers. I got out, asked about time and he said, “33.50” …I missed the pool record by four tenths of a second. My heart dropped. The yellow ring represents discipline. Without discipline, an athlete will not …show more content…
Athletes must have self-confidence. It’s all about the positive mindset. Having the thought of not doing well is an automatic lose for the athlete. This happened to me one time, actually many times, but here is one incident that occurred in my life. I was getting ready for my race which was the 100-yard freestyle. I told myself I wasn’t going to do well because I had not trained for it the best I could. Yeah, I did exactly what I thought, I completely bombed that race. I gained almost two seconds. Without the confidence I needed, I allowed my mind to control my body. Marcus Garvey once said, “With confidence, you have won before you
In December of 1979 Soviet forces began to invade Afghanistan and make their first attempt at grabbing new land since World War II. Jimmy Carter, who was the president of the United States at the time did not support the Soviet’s invasion of Afghanistan and decided to boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics hosted by the Soviets in Moscow. He revoked the passports of all American athletes, did not allow any U.S. Olympic athlete to attend the summer games and encouraged other countries to do the same. However, Jimmy Carter’s choice to boycott the 1980 Olympics held in Moscow was ultimately a failure because it failed to gather a large amount of support, it was ineffective in having any influence or impact on the Soviet Union’s involvement in Afghanistan,
Citius, Altius, Fortius is the motto of the Olympic Games. Translated from Greek, it means "Faster, Higher, Stronger". Recently, Olympic contenders have been doing everything they can to live up to that motto. Most do it by training hour after hour, each day. Others try to do it by illegally taking performance-enhancing drugs.
Professor Chris Pelling of UCL wrote The Ancient Olympics. In addition, the author is a member of the UCL Department of Greek and Latin. In this article, the author describe and explain how sports were more than a competition in the ancient Greece. His hypothesis was that sports were a way to get honor and power instead of just competing. It represents more than a simple crown of leaves and olive-branch at the Olympics. It gave power, fame and honor to the athlete and their home city. In addition, they were awarded with many material rewards such as money, and women. For instance, the primary method employed in this research consisted
When the Olympic Games first began in 776 B.C. in Athens, Greece, wrestling was the premiere event. It was considered the ultimate test of discipline and strength, in which the world would discover who the greatest warrior is. Wrestling exemplifies the motto of the Olympic Games: Citius, Altius, Fortius. Which means faster, higher, stronger.
In Hitler’s Nazi-state Jewish athletes and other raced athletes were banned from German sports club, and they instead had to flock to separate Jewish associations. These associations weren’t nice inside or adequate for the amount of people in them, compared for the well-funded German associations. With all the hostility and judgement passed Mayer and Owens, they still were able to prove that sports and the idea of right and wrong do occasionally mix. These athletes proved Hitler and all of the Nazi-supporters wrong, and that the Olympic Flag stood for sport sport alone, clear of political obstacles, and without distinction with regard to the color, race, or creed.(Kieran)
modern Olympics were a vision of one man who had strived to see a unity that can only be
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.
The thing is, if you give up, you will never forgive yourself in the future and you will regret it a lot. This is why I believe that if you just stay positive through tough situations, you will get through anything in life. There have been many times in my athletic career where I just wanted to give up and quit the sport. Whether it being basketball, football, track, or baseball. But, there was always something in the back of my mind that told me to keep thinking positive and to keep trying.
The Olympic Games plays a significant role in the world. The relationship between it and host countries is important to investigate for comprehending cultural studies. According to Xu and Kirby (2008), the Olympic Games has a considerable impact on the expression of national identity. For example, London applied this approach to promote its national identity. This can be discovered from the BBC video called James Bond escorts The Queen to the opening ceremony in 2012 (2012): an amiable identity is perceived by the audience through presenting corgi at Buckingham Palace. Moreover, China is no exception. There is an image about the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics, it shows a spectacular drumming performance. In addition, an article about
The Olympic Games. The biggest international sports competition in which the worlds’ best athletes compete from all around the world to win medals for their countries. The Olympics have been a worldwide tradition since the eighth century BC, but it has hardly benefited us as a species. Every time we have the Games, our resources are abused in order to create the Olympics we desire. Huge amounts of money are used to build venues and make medals, only leading up to the countries who host the Games going into debt afterwards. There are only rare cases in which the countries earn money from hosting the Olympics, but most of the time the debt that they get themselves into take years, or even decades to pay off. You might ask yourself, why do we even host the Olympics, if it has these huge disadvantages? The answer is because we want pride for our countries, no matter how temporary it is. Knowing this, we can safely say, that the Olympic Games do not help us grow as a species.
The Olympic Games, hosted in Olympia, Greece, reflected and represented many of Greece 's traditional values in their culture, politics, and social institutions. With the Olympics being the biggest event in Greece at the time, the occasion brought many new ideas and showed what the traditions and customs of Greece were really about. Through this big spectacle people learned about their own culture and went through many experiences ranging from listening to poets and praying at the Temple of Zeus to spectating the sport of “Pankration”, a combination of boxing and wrestling. They would even compete in the nude as a time-honored tradition. “...the practice [competing in the nude] also symbolically stripped away social rank, an extraordinary gesture toward a democratic sporting ideal in the status-obsessed ancient world.”(pg. 7) The Olympics
Every two years the Olympic Games take place on the world’s stage. People are mesmerized as they cheer on their home team. Whether it be the summer or winter games, for two weeks, biannually, people are inundated with the games. But, many may fail to realize the competition and game behind the Games. This is the never ceasing game of the bidding process and subsequent creation and construction of new Olympic venues as newly selected host cities prepare for their opportunity to host the Olympics. But this little known game has only a few select winners, and their prize is not a medal, rather it is huge financial gains. The losers are many, and they are the most vulnerable inhabitants of the city, the poor; they are not simply losing out on a medal, they are losing their homes.
As an athlete, and a student, I have foresight in knowing the goals I need to accomplish, but do so with integrity, honesty, and a positive attitude. Both tennis and school has brought me to understand that no matter how far down you get in life, you can, and must, pick yourself back up. During tough tennis matches, a player can be losing by a large margin to his opponent. I have experienced this situation countless times. There are two options for the losing player. The first is to tank, where the player slowly gives up mentally and stops giving his all. The losing opponent could also continue to fight, not worrying whether he wins or loses, only that he gave his all and kept in his mind the phrase "I can do this." In the classroom, I can apply this same attitude. Math has never been my forte, but I learned that if I didn’t understand a concept immediately, I would eventually grasp it with persistence in my studying and practice of the math problems.
If you think about success and confidence, you will feel strong and competent, and you will perform better at whatever you attempt. If you think about making mistakes and being embarrassed, you will perform poorly, no matter how good you really are.
It is certain that during the midsummer of 776 BC a festival was held at