Privilege In Olympics

For nearly as long as humans have been around, some form of athletic competition has also existed. Dating back to the ancient Romans, people would travel from all around to see their men compete. Since 1894, the International Olympic Committee has organized the worldwide event we know as the modern Olympic Games. The games have for a long time been a center point of many protests, revolving around the current events and arguments of the time. American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos created one of the most iconic and socially important Olympic protests at the 1968 Summer Games, when they raised their fists up while giving the Black Panther salute on the podium. A gesture that has been celebrated, criticized, and discussed to this day.

Gender inequality in sports is defined as men have more opportunities than women, which most of the time is quite true. That is why there needs to be a way to promote equal opportunity to men and women in sports. That is where Title IX comes into play, they will consider the idea of equal participation for men and women based on their interests.

The most popular global organization that help people with disabilities to play and compete sports is the Special Olympics. The Special Olympics started in 1968, it was held in Chicago, Illinois and it only involved 26 U.S. states and Canada. According to the article “The Special Olympics-Paralympic Games relationship”, Traian Bocu states, “Special Olympics is the world’s largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, which provides competitions throughout the year with the participation of over 4.5 million athletes from 170 countries” (Bocu 299). Since the 1968, the Special Olympics has got over 80% of the worlds countries involved as competition participants. The Special Olympics gives a chance for people with disabilities all over the World to play sports. The Special Olympics helps people with disabilities to learn new skills, make new friends, gain fitness and confidence. The Kim Källstrom Trophy Tournament is the biggest soccer tournament for Special Olympics teams and it is part of the Gothia Cup (The World Youth Cup). It started in 2011 involving 21 Special Olympics teams from 7 different countries. Today, it involves 27 Special Olympics teams from 12 countries. The Special Olympics’ website also states, “The Swedish national team player and Russian top club Spartak Moscow player, Kim Kallstrom, took the initiative himself to provide young people with an intellectual disability the opportunity to be part of the Gothia Cup by including the Special Olympics category” (2013 Kim Källström Trophy a Great Success). Kim Källstrom is a famous soccer player in Europe from Sweden and he started this program to provide children with disabilities a chance to play soccer. This is an excellent program, it gives children with disabilities a chance to be active, travel to different places, and live a life like a famous athlete. These global programs help people with disabilities play sports. They provide sports that’ll benefit a person with disabilities in many ways. I think these programs are very helpful with people who have disabilities.

There is a big social problem in the Olympic Games for Racism. They say that blacks dominant most of the sports at the games more than the whites. There have been studies shown that the genes in African Americans make them jump high and become fast sprinters. When there are eight blacks lined up in the Olympic 100 dash meters or play in the NBA all-star game they talk about their speed and natural jumping skills.

Celebrities all around the world use their ”fame as a platform to address injustice”. There has been a lot of athletes protesting or expressing their dissatisfaction with a certain topic. For example, when Kaepernick (49ers quarterback) Kneeled down during the national anthem. Athletes are becoming more and more vocal trying to get their points across, sometimes going to extreme extents. Athletes are becoming more and more vocal trying to get their point across, sometimes going to extreme extents. Because athletes want to make sure they are getting their point across. These days it's becoming worst and worst for America. A bunch of bad things is happening to our country, it's becoming hard for athletes to support what America is becoming.

Between Oct 5 to 21, Brazil held the 31th Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro. Even thought many Brazilians disagree negative opinions for the Brazil’s government and Olympic Organizing Committee, Rio Olympic games still was a big success. In the past, depend on the high developing, Brazil had a strong strength to compete the right of holding the Olympics. Rio defeated Tokyo, Madrid and Chicago. Unexpected, the economy of Brazil is recession, and many people don’t think Brazil’s government had enough strength to hold this huge event. Brazil’s government believe the Olympic games can help them to develop the economy. However, other people think the Olympic games will drag the Brazil’s economy.

The research behind this particular study showed that students whether non- athletes or athletes that attend RPI (religious practicing institutions) or those that attend NRPI (none religious practicing institutions) all vary in regarding to the strength of their religious faith. These results of the study were based upon four different questions that were used to keep the study with in the appropriate context. Both male and female athletes as well as non-athletes were chosen during psychology classes from either institution. The results of the study showed that NPRI athletes didn’t have a stronger differentiation from non-athletes that attended the same NPRI but one variable that did prove to have a strong contextual showing once the results were shown was that females were shown to have a stronger sense of religious faith in comparison to men..

Drug use in sport is a highly debated topic, some people believe that the use of drugs creates an even playing field and other believe that drug use should be completely abolished from sport. Recently the Russian athletic team were banned from competing in the Rio Olympics due to a Government sponsored doping program. I do not agree with the blanket ban of all Russian athletes. I believe that only the athletes who were using performance enhancing drugs should have been banned, because the clean athletes have worked hard for this opportunity all their life, they are there to represent their country and it ruins the reputation of the athletes that were clean and their countries reputation.

The Olympics have a rich history, significant purpose, and has evolved over time. The first time the Olympics were around there were 293 of them until finally they got outlawed. They were reinstated in 1896 and there have been 29 summer Olympics since. The Olympics have impacted many people with a total of 322 Games so far. Everything is done with a purpose. The ancient Olympics were dedicated to the gods. Now the Olympics are used to show who is the best of the best. Each country contributes their best athletes to see who will become the best in the world. Finally, many factors have contributed to the evolution of the Olympics. The main one is technology. Television has helped evolve the Olympics the most. Before the television was invented

Legadec 2007 argues that the universe had entered a totally new era of extreme events accompanied by risks risk of their own kind. The globalization process has greatly contributed a lot to the risk-changing environment that is growth in technology, environmental, economic and social culture. These factors are facilitated by urbanization, the increase in the interdependence and the technological innovations

It is the year 2004, and everyone who is anyone in the world of athletics is headed to Athens, Greece. To some people Athens is just an ancient city where the myths of Hercules and Zeus were originated, but this year, it's not just an ancient city, it's a reunion of where sports began. Even thought they won't be played in the nude it will still be considered a reunion. That's right; the Olympics are headed back to their hometown of Athens, or at least it's close enough. However, looking back on the years, both modern and ancient, there has been quite a change in our Olympic events.

About 206 countries in the world participate in the Olympics. Can you imagine the Olympic games in the same 5 countries every year? Have you ever thought about what the Olympics would be like if they were always in the same place? Imagine not being able to guess where the next Olympics are going to be held and traveling the world to get there. This is what will happen if the IOC stopped the Olympics from traveling from country to country. The only solution to stop this; keep the Olympics moving around country to country. The Olympics should not have a permanent home and should continue to move around the world. Having them in a permanent home takes away more than you think to people.

These events can also enable the host country attract investment in the country as well as provide job opportunities to millions of people. Along with the pros side of the Olympic Games, history is evident that these events have gone through many controversies regarding the political influences. These games are seen to be highly influenced by the political aspect of the organizing committee as well as the political influence of the hosting country in the games and events. From the beginning of Modern Olympics we have evidenced that host county generally keep their best interest in hand and promote their political ideologies through Olympics Games. There were allegation to some hosting countries like Nazi Germany that they used the game to show Aryan superiority back when it organized Olympics Games. During the World Wars the Olympic Games had to be halted and even after these wars there were very limited participation due to Cold Wars. There was also terrorist attack during the Olympic Games back in 1972 at Berlin. At many times the athletes participating in the games has also shown political influence through their actions and languages used during the

This seems like a bad thing, it is but it brings more attention and makes the games not blank having emotions. Lastly the Olympics have basic things that we take for granted like women’s rights of the Olympics or the spectators, or how the Olympics actually appear on our television.

Olympic games began in Ancient Greece from 776 BC and lasted to 393 AD. It is believed that they may have begun for hundreds of years before.