The Legacy Of The Olympic 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 1968 Olympics, the world was in chaos. Countries had internal and external problems that were carried on to the Olympic stage. Issues like the Cold War, South Africa apartheid, and the Civil Rights movement took part in forming the games and taking the stage. However, the host of the Olympics, Mexico, was in for a rude awakening. First, they had to prove to the world that they were capable of hosting the games. Second, they had to handle the worlds issues and their own too. Mexico’s problems consisted of the effect of high altitude on athlete’s performance and student protests. These concerns are all discussed in Kevin Witherspoon’s book, Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968 Olympic Games. Witherspoon argues how global and internal disputes were able to impact Mexico in how they handled the most watched event.

The 1968 Olympics in Mexico City black power salute was an act of protest by the African American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos during their medal ceremony. Tommie Smith and John Carlos were both students at San Jose State University. What Smith and Carlos had done was one of the most memorable moments in the American Civil Rights Movement. Carlos recalls, “What was truly special was not the statue, but how it came about. Students on campus organized a movement that made the statue happen.”

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.

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 olympics were shaped due to social reasons. Document 1’s author, Pierre de Coubertin, who is the founder of the modern Olympics, is a reliable asset to pursuing ideal peace with many other countries. The reason why he wants peace is because he wants to have the “disappearance of war” to be “utopians” which shows that he believes that the olympics one of the best answers to his goal. Similarly, in document 6, the Soviet Union’s Olympic organizing Committee also want to take part with “peace, democracy, and social progress.” This shows how more and more countries, even those with bad ties with others,

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.

His new home is not only beneficial to Joe’s emotional health, he also shows improved connection with his teammates on the water. Black Power Olympic salute - This represents the theme of political significance given to sporting events. The book describes much of the effort by the Nazis to create a positive global image of Germany, through the olympics. We see the great lengths The Nazis went to in preparation for the games, as well as related media created to support their political views.

This article is the black power salute that Smith, Carlos, and Norman that the 1968 olympics. “We were just human beings who saw a need to bring attention to the inequality in our country,” Smith said years later.” This quote gives us more information about why those three athletes did the stand.

The Olympic Games were designed to be a competition of athleticism, but during World War II, they paraded their skilled athletes as trophies against other nations. Jesse Owens derailed the expectations of supremacy for Adolf Hitler through his performance. Despite the racial tension masking the Olympic Games of 1936, Owens’ accomplishments precipitated political agendas to display equality amongst all races.

The Olympics help even the most rigid political and government leaders to come together and compete for their country. All of this helped our countries and the olympics become what they are today. Most of the facilities built for the 1980 Olympics continue to be effectively used up to this day because of how sturdily they were built. People who compete and watch the olympics have been inspired and their lives have been changed(especially those who have competed in the Games). The boycott of the Olympic Games hugely assisted the creation of the 1980 Games' legacy, especially when it came to new technologies. Many of the world's leading technology companies helped to create new and inspiring technology to be updated into what we have present day. One of the things that the Olympics helped to develop was, because many news crews were banned from Moscow, they needed to figure out a way to cover the Games. Therefore they came up with better camera and ways to communicate with the world outside of Moscow, Russia. All was well with the Olympics for a while(after 1984), until

The Nazi Olympics in Berlin in 1936 destroyed Hitler’s master race history. "There was very definitely a special feeling in winning the gold medal and being a black man," Woodruff said. "We destroyed [Hitler's] master race theory whenever we started winning those gold medals,” said runner John Woodruff (7). John Woodruff was a black man who won a gold medal. Another African American Jesse Owens won four track and field gold medals. These two people defied the Aryan ideal that Hitler believed that Aryan dominated the world. Another important impact the Olympic brought happened in 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia. In that Olympics, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon refused to participate because of a dispute over the Suez Canal; Spain, Switzerland, and the Netherlands boycotted the Games in protest over the Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary; China boycotted the Games because a flag of Taiwan was raised in the Olympic Village. The original purpose of the Olympics was to make the countries collaborate, however, it also brought negative impacts. Another example is that Olympics in Mexico city in 1968. Americans politicised the Games by letting two African Americans, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, represent the United States. Tommie Smith and John Carlos placed first and third in the track and field. During their medal ceremony, they raised a clenched fist above their

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.

Olympic sports is a world competition, and there are a variety of world records. Cesar Cielo, from Brazil swam 20.91 in a 50 meter freestyle in 2009, as well as the 100m freestyle the same year. Paul Biedermann from Germany swam the 200m and 400m freestyle race in 1;42 and 3:40 in 2009. Zhang Lin from China swam the 800m freestyle in 7:32 in 2009. Sun Lang from China swam the 1500 m freestyle in 2009. Liam Tancock from Great Britain swam the 50m backstroke in 51.85 in 2009. Ryan Murphy from from the U.S swam the 100m backstroke in 51.85 in 2009 and 2016. Aaron Perisol from the U.S swam the 200m backstroke in 1.51 in 2009 and the 50m backstroke in 2017. Ippei Watanabe of Japan swam the 200m breaststroke in 2.06 . Rafael Ramos of Spain swam

One thing that can be observed in an Olympic event is the togetherness and unity of the population. In this Olympic trials, the crowd cheers for the runner for various reasons; family and friends cheer for their support and the fans for both support and American pride. Despite for the hot weather sun starting to beat down on us, many still came in their tee-shirts or tank tops with mostly either American pride such as a waving flag shirt or any t-shirt that has a representation of the Olympics. A few people I did notice were wearing different versions of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics t-shirts. There choice of music is a mixture of