How Safe Is The Olympics?

In recent news, there has been a string of attacks all over the world; each attack has been related to terrorism. A passenger boarded a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris, armed with a box cutter, a pistol and an AK-47 with intent to harm innocent people. Four passengers on the train quickly subdued the terrorist before anyone could be harmed. In November, Paris, France was struck with terror when three armed men set off a string of attacks throughout the city, to include a bomb and active shootings. This attack left nearly 127 people killed and wounded. Most recently, in San Bernadino, California a man and woman left from a holiday party and returned with assault rifles. The officials attributed their act to terrorism, where the

Ever since its inception in 1896, the Modern Olympics has hosted an invisible sport: politics. The Olympics calls for “a halt to all conflicts … [and to] strive towards a more peaceful world,” but politics soon spoiled its biennial message. “As the Olympics continue to dissolve into … a political competition … they no longer … justify the time and trouble,” Dave Anderson, Pulitzer Prize winner for his sports column, wrote in the New York Times in 1984. The Olympic spirit has routinely been used as an outlet for political agendas. With political and Olympic ambitions intersected, the great international sports festivity negatively affects all nations involved.

For the first time in the history of modern Olympics, the games were suspended in the wake of the terrorist attack. The Munich massacre had a significant impact on the Olympic Games. After the murder of the 11 members of the Israeli team, a memorial service was held in the Olympic Stadium, in which there was an attendance of 80,000 spectators and 3000 athletes. Following the massacre, there was great argumentation on whether the games should continue or not. It was also believed that the cancellation of the games would have encouraged repeated acts of terrorism. Players feared they were at risk, while people also believed

There are quite a few factors that shaped the modern-day Olympics from 1892 to 2002. Pierre de Coubertin states that he wanted to create the Olympics to spread world peace. He does this by substituting war for friendly sports competitions (doc 1). Of course, there were some bumps in the road while trying to achieve this utopia. Some factors that have changed the Olympics are the allowing of women being able to compete in the Olympics, women’s suffrage, nationalism, wars, and economic conditions (doc 2-7).

During the 1972 Olympic Games, eight Palestinian terrorists, from the organization Black September, killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team and took nine others hostage.

As a sporting mega-event, the Olympic Games have numerous social impacts on the people, not only on those from the host country, but on individuals all over the globe.

The Olympic Games are recognized globally by billions of people. This event is the biggest sporting event not only because it comes once every four years, but also because the world’s best athletes come together to compete for world fame and glory. Hosting the games seems like an honor for most people, however there is numerous risks involved

During his shift working the 1996 summer Olympics Richard Jewell’s life would change forever. While on duty on July 27th Jewell noticed a suspicious bag under a bench and reported it to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations officer that was also working the event (Ostrow, 2000) Upon investigation 3 pipe bombs were discovered in the unattended bag and Jewell and other law enforcement officers began to clear people from the area surrounding the bombs (Olympic Bombing, n.d.). Because of Jewell and the other law enforcement officer’s efforts to get people out of the direct area around the bombs countless lives would be saved when they finally exploded. The total count of victims ended up being 1 fatality and 111 people injured from the blast (Ostrow, 2000). Directly after the events unfolded Jewell was interviewed and portrayed by media and news outlets as a hero hailed by NBC’s Katie Couric who said while interviewing him “You were in the right place at the right time and you did the right thing” (Ostrow, 2000).

The security of the Olympic Village, where the terrorists abducted the team, was nonexistent. The Olympic organizers

Olympics are mega-global event that attracts the attention worldwide with billions of audience watching on television, while millions flock to events as spectators. The media embraces the opportunity of covering every inch of the games. This kind of interest is what organisers face with no room for error in relation to external attacks or system failures of the event although risks are bound to occur to any project or program as in the case of Olympics. These risks may occur with a positive impact to the organisers though they dread to have negative risks, which causes ripple effect to the project. (Taylor, 2006)

The 2012 London Olympic Games, lasting from 25 July to 12 August 2012, was one of the largest events ever hosted in the UK. During this world-wide sport event, 4 billion people watched the opening ceremonies on television; more than 10,000 athletes from over 200 countries participated; 20 million people visited the city; and approximately $14 billion were generated (Kubo, 2014).

Every four years a different country hosts the Olympics. Every two years its either the Winter or Summer Olympics. It is two thousand sixteen and in August, everybody eyes are going to be glued to their televisions when Rio host the two thousand sixteen Summer Olympics in Brazil. Many cities around the world put bids in advance to hold the Olympics. The Olympics are a big deal and you have to have the resources to host it. You need to have facilities for the sports, transportation, Olympics villages for the athletes to stay, a stadium for the opening and closing ceremonies, and most of all money. Cities tend to lose money when hosting the Olympics. Sometimes the facilities they use get abandon and are never used again. They are many reasons for a city to host the Olympics, but there are three reasons to not. Reasons for not hosting it because it is expensive, there no guarantee of profits or increase tourism in the host city, and to many buildings being left abandoned

One Day in September is a documentary film, exposing the brutal face of terrorism, showing real interviews and footage of the terrorist group “Black September.” Including the kidnapping and killing of 11 Israeli athletes, officials, and trainers at the 1972 Munich Olympics games; the horrible event broadcasting on live television. Munich is about the response from Israel, with flashbacks to the actually 1972 events in Munich seen at points throughout the movie, providing the viewers an insight into Avner and his team seeking revenge on the terrorists, who were part of the kidnapping and killing of the eleven Israeli men during the Olympics in

In conclusion the notoriety of Black September Organization a militant faction that broke away from the Palestinian organization Fatah comes from its struggles for freedom within the Middle East. Black September was best known for the attack at the Munich Olympics where it took members of Israeli Olympic Team hostage and demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners being held in West German and

Higham (1999) discusses that there are numerous problems, which will be evaluated with hosting an Olympic games such as, development issues, local resident issues, short-term affects, and security issues. In terms of development issues, there is a significant cost dealing with large scale sporting events, and economic benefits are generally received more by big time business interests not the host community. So the host community doesn’t benefit as much as they potentially could by hosting the