The 2016 Olympic Games

But, local residents will be adversely affected by noise, dust and visual pollution due to many people traveling to and from Stratford during the games, which will cause policing and security to be extremely tight due to potential terrorist threat during the games.

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.

Before the 2016 Rio Olympic Games starts, many people have been complaining about the deplorable safety across the country, which is leading to an uncontrollable increase in the death toll. In fact, the mass media declares, about three months prior to the beginning of the event, that the Olympic Games will be cancelled due to "resource inefficiency", but things soon head — to a promising start. At the end of July, "as the Olympics are near its commencement, Rio is supplied with 85,000 security forces to ensure city tourists and its citizens are kept safe while the event is hosted" (Kaiser and Jacobs). The appearance of military soldiers encompassing Rio's surroundings mostly surprise Brazilian people who are not only concerned about getting robbed by dangerous criminals, but also are on the lookout of a potential terrorist attack directed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). In major sporting events like the Olympics and the World Cup, safety from military forces is absolutely necessary so as to ensure tourists and thousands of others enjoy their time being there. How would the entire American Women's Gymnastics Team react if they are subject to an unprecedented series of robberies during their stay in Rio? Would Brazil feel embarrassment for allowing such grotesque occurrence to happen

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.

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).

Intelligence and Warning is Border and Transportation Security is responsible for protecting America's borders, territorial waters, and transportation systems by centralizing information-sharing and databases that track and monitor all aspects of border control and America's transportation systems. Domestic Counterterrorism covers a wide variety of activities, ranging from National Security Agency monitoring of telephone conversations to local police monitoring of persons of interest. Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Key Assets identifies a clear set of national goals and objectives and outlines the guiding principles that will underpin our efforts to secure the infrastructures and assets vital to our national security, governance, public health and safety, economy, and public confidence. Defending against Catastrophic Threats reduces vulnerability of the United States to terrorism. Emergency Preparedness and Response will create one emergency response plan to be used at all levels of government and will ensure that first-responders, from the federal government level down to local levels, receive proper training and equipment.

Bellavita Christopher is the Director of Programs for the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security. Also, from 1998 to 2002, he was the planning coordinator for the Utah Olympic Public Safety Command. The author focuses on the fact that homeland security faces a variety of threats. Many factors such as the economy, weapons of mass destruction and a lack of moral compass pose potential challenges to homeland security (Bellavita, 2009). The terrorist attacks such as the one in Mumbai, the economic meltdown, the disaster on the borders remain potential malefactors to the U. S. homeland. And to no surprise, the threats are gradually transforming into a more complex tactics. Bellavita takes aim towards a realistic assessment

This paper will be focused on a terrorism security policy for large events. This paper will also include statistical, factual, and public opinion history information which will support my policy claim. All stake holders such as: politicians, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, correctional officers and administrators, law enforcement officers and administrators, victims, law-abiding citizens, will be included in this paper. Furthermore, their opinions as their opinion relates to my proposed policy and how politics may impact my policy implementation. Additionally, I will provide policy recommendations and the rationale for these

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

People with the greatest honor are remembered in the Olympics. The Olympics had started a revolution that is still on today; it has brought the most talented people together to compete in events to show each others’ great ability. The olympics is the new age of competitive sports that will lead people to unlock their full potential, and start a story that will never be forgotten. The Ancient greece olympic games go back to 776 bc in a little village called Olympia. The games were a religious event that was performed to honor the ancient Greek God Zeus. The games were held every four years. The Greeks had four national sports festivals, where athletes from near cities come to compete. Which included boxing, chariot racing, riding, pankration,

Terrorists attack threats have been ignored by the brazilian government and the police forces, and instead of responding they police forces were assigned to guard the building of the new stadium instead of enforcing the law. In fact ”it is imperative for the Brazilian government to understand that its people expect the authorities to comply with their duty to protect by not neglecting the terrorist threat” (Degaut 36). Having the 2016 olympics hosted anywhere would bring about terrorists threats, the brazilian government is choosing not to respond could be a good move or a bad move, good being is if terrorists see they don't care or aren't responding might make them not attack or vice versa. Also with the rise in gang activity, in effect of the illegal drug industry, the police should be making sure the gangs in check instead of guarding a construction

Although the city has never hosted the Olympic games, it has hosted various international sporting events such as the 1999 Women’s World Cup, 2006 Men’s World Curling Championship, 2009 World Skateboard Championships/Dew Tour, 2012 Fed Cup Tennis Tournament, 2016 ISU World Figure Skating Championship. On top of these international sporting events, the city of Boston has also been host to the Democratic National Convention. Both the Democratic National Convention and the Olympic games are considered to be National Special Security Events (NSSE). This means that the United States Secret Service Agency would act as the head of safety and security operations. Since the city of Boston has prior experience dealing with the U.S. Secret Service, this will ensure a smooth implementation of security measurements by the federal, state, and local agencies.

Don’t go into this one only expecting a story behind the Olympics. There is more here of hopes, dreams, accomplishments as well as fulfillments and disappointments and yet at the heart of it all lies the reality that family is first. The story travels through time of 1983 to 2012 covering the family of Elizabeth and Mario along with their son Andre. Elizabeth and Mario have traveled the world over setting up Olympics but with the birth of Andre Elizabeth becomes a stay at home mom and that bond that develops between the two. Mario remains traveling and deals with the pain of sacrifice of giving his son the best childhood has to offer. However, the story doesn’t end there as Andre grows so does his love of cycling and how he must overcome his

The plan called for restricting a 45 nautical mile radius of airspace centered on Salt City to cleared aircraft only and locating four gateway airports outside the secured zone to inspect passengers and cargo destined for the games. I tackled this problem by recruiting FAA authorities onto the security team. I outlined the security concept to them and encouraged them to improve upon the plan based on their professional knowledge of the local area and agency policy. This step created a common cause and joint ownership leading to the rapid approval of the plan by HQ FAA. The next step was to establish a law enforcement presence at airports within the restricted airspace to ensure unauthorized air operations were not conducted and at the gateway airports to pre-inspect aircraft prior to their entering the secured airspace. I enlisted the support of U.S. Customs, Office of Field Operation (OFO), customs inspectors, to plan and execute this portion of the plan. They created an automated system for aircrews schedule background checks and reservation process for inspection slot times at the gateway airports. I directed the engineering team to build a joint air operations center. This facility would be the location where all air surveillance feeds, information and intelligence would be integrated permitting the air operations team to all be aware of all activities of concern taking place in the air. FAA air traffic controllers, Customs Controllers and U.S. Secret Service would monitor the airspace from the center and collectively formulate a response to potential security threats. The engineering team completed the construction in record time for such a huge undertaking. I facilitated the creation of “airspace control measures,”

The Olympic Games is one of the biggest and most unrivaled sporting events in the entire world. At first it may seem like a huge plus or advantage for a city or nation to host this event. However on the contrary there are a lot of negative aspects that occur when a nation hosts this event. While the event is taking place, from the outside it looks like a state of the art, prestigious event that it is. Some of the problems that are caused by hosting Olympic games deal with, stadium development, local resident life, security issues, and many others that will be discussed. One of the big problems when dealing with a mega event such as the Olympic Games is the stadiums, which get built, and how they get abandoned or not used after the games are finished. This is one of the major problems surrounding the Athens 2004 games. Many of the stadiums and infrastructure are left untouched and abandoned to this day.