Summary : ' The Winter Olympics '

The Olympic games originated in Athens in 776 B.C. The more popular modern day Olympic games began nearly 2300 years later in 1896. The games no longer represented a religious festival, but a sports competition instead. The games can be studied via multiple aspects such as political, social, and economic, but this paper will concentrate on the economic aspect of the games and more specifically, the macroeconomic impacts the games possess.

Based on a true story, Cool Runnings is about four Jamaican athletes going to the extremes to be able to compete as bobsled racers in the 1988 Calgary Olympic Games. In the beginning of the film, three Jamaican sprinters, Derice Bannock, Junior Bevil, and Yul Brenner, try out for a spot on the Jamaican Olympic team for the summer games. Junior Bevil unfortunately trips and falls during the race and brings Derice Bannock and Yul Brenner with him. Derice Bannock’s dream was to win an Olympic gold medal, but losing the try-out race ruined his chances of achieving that goal. Derice had to win the gold, so he found a brand new Olympic event to Jamaica known as bobsledding (Amazon).

The day is December 20, 1998; President Bill Clinton has just been assassinated in the White House Rose Garden by an unknown assailant. Further details at this point have not been revealed yet. This is a day of true tragedy for the whole of the United States of America. Those would be the words spoken shortly after the single shot rang from the barrel of the rifle into Clinton’s heart. This is the story of how four people put the U.S. in utter turmoil.

“Final call girl’s four by eight-hundred-meter relay” called the official. The Ontario Track girl’s four by eight-meter team trooped up to lane one, in unison. I would not have wanted to be racing with anyone else but my relay family. We had trained all season for this one race. Every workout, asthma attack, tear, and shin splint has lead up to this one race to break a twenty year old school record. As we jogged with the official from the bullpen to the starting line, the crowd had uproars of excitement for the athletes. An immense smile grew across my face, not only from the ecstatic crowd, but from the anticipation to race. I approached the starting line, in the first lane, while my teammates arrayed along the fence with the other second,

The Olympics were revived in 1896 thanks to Pierre de Coubertin. Since its reemergence in 1896, the modern Olympic movement has been shaped and influenced politically through the tensions between countries, economically through financial gain opportunity, and socially by promoting women’s rights. Another document I would like to have seen would be one containing a record of third world countries that have attended the Olympics. This document would have shown how wealth effects and shapes the modern Olympics.

The 1980 Moscow Olympics became known for the controversy and political statements that occurred at the Games. The split between the Communist countries and the rest of the world became evident in the lead up to the event. The world split into two groups, those that would support the Soviet Games and those who would not. In total, 60 different non-communist countries boycotted the Games following the United States boycott. The United States withdrew on the basis that the Soviet Union’s presence in Afghanistan. The Soviets doubted that reason and claimed that the real reason the United States withdrew as due to their status as a communist nation, the first to host the Games. In response to the boycott, the USSR launched a counter campaign

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).

The Olympic games were an athletic competition help in Greece around every four years from 776 B.C.E. In 776 B.C.E, the first olympics were held in Athens where many competitors clashed during the sporting events. The olympics then stopped in 393 C.E. due to Theodosius I’s orders on stopping the olympic events. Later during 1896, the modern olympics began to take place. The olympics were different from the ancient olympics in that the competition was shaped due to social, political, and economic reasons.

The "Going to the Olympics" mural by Frank Romero painted in the 1980's to signify and walcome the 1980 olympics. Around that time graffiti was very popular and was going on every wall a grafitti artist could reach. Romero's art was on a freeway and had enough space between the wall and the road to be accessible to anyone and that lead to graffiti artist being able to access it and paint of hi art. INstead of the city buffering Romero's art they just painted over it making it a bland wall again.

Central Idea: Running is a positive way to better health, and there are many opportunities to run in races.

Although the original ancient Olympic Games can be traced back to 776 B.C, Homer’s Iliad indicates they may have existed as early as the twelfth century BC. The Games were then continued for twelve centuries and were devoted to Olympian deities. Olympia turned into the site of these memorable ancient Olympic games that scattered the seeds for the largest global sporting events of current times, the Modern Olympics. The location of the Ancient Olympics is situated in the western part of Peloponnese. The Ancient Olympic Games continued until 393 A.D when Emperor Theodosius I of Rome discontinued them. There were not any more Olympic games for fifteen hundred years before they were resurrected in 1896 in the city of Athens. The man in charge of the recreation of the Olympic games was a Frenchman named Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who introduced the thought in 1894. He proposed to stage the games in Paris in 1900 but representatives, from thirty-four nations were so captivated with the idea that they persuaded him to move the Games up to 1896 and have Athens serve as the host.

In the film Cool Running directed by Jon Turteltaub an important scene in the film was the final sled sequence. This scene was important for three main reasons. Firstly, determination is shown by the team. Secondly, how far the team as come and finally, winning isn't everything. This is shown through the visual and verbal features of camera work, dialogue and background music. This movie is about the story of four Jamaican men on their quest to represent their country at an Olympics and the struggles and hurdles they faced in getting there.

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).

The Olympic Games are a set of friendly competitions that bring countries from all around the world together, but many social, political, and economic problems in the past and present including racial and sexual discrimination and apartheid have prevented the Olympic Games from fulfilling their promise to bring countries together.

First of all, the first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. The man responsible for its rebirth was a Frenchman named Baron Pierre de Coubertin. Today, the Olympic Games are the world's largest pageant of athletic skill and competitive spirit.