The Olympic Event Of Los Angeles

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.

The modern Olympic movement has been shaped by many differentiating factors over the years. It has been altered by social, political, and economic factors. More specifically, warring times, changes to social structures, and economic activity that varies by country have been the overall leading factors that have shaped the Olympics over the years.

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).

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.

Then, ethnicities of Indian, African, Mulatto and probably many others settled in. Soon, it was part of Mexico in 1821 ensuing the Mexican War of Independence. During Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles, Alta California's regional capital. Mexican rule ended during the Mexican–American War: Americans took control from the Californians after a sequence of fighting, culminating with the signing of the Treaty on January 13, 1847.

I heard crowds around me cheering names I didn’t recongnize. I looked down at my feet, running spikes on them, and turf beneath them. When someone yelled my name my trance is broken. The voice told me to lead the stretches. Was not until then did I actually realize I am running first leg at the 2013 Penn Relays Carnival.

At the beginning of the movie, the director and producers show the turmoil that the United States is battling through. Some examples are the cold war, the Iranian Hostage Crisis, the oil depletion, the Soviets invading Afghanistan, the low moral of this country, and especially the declining of patriotism that all the Americans were facing. All of these emotional issues are displayed in the movie, angering much of the audience. This was done so the audience would start to be able to feel how much the game really mattered in the actual spectrum of things. Therefore, when the scenes of the Olympics were being played out, and the scene of the semifinal game against the soviets came on, the audience really began to get into it and support the Americans as if the games were actually being played live in front of them. This movie creates emotions that transcend time. It raises patriotism to a high level and the crowd begins to believe, watching as the young Americans are beating the soviets in their own game on the largest stage in the world. After the game when the Americans win the game, the audience in the movie theater acts as if they were truly in the crowd at Lake Placid rooting on their fellow countrymen. As Jamie Fitzpatrick puts it, “in the country's sporting

Ahh, the Olympics. A nice time to sit down, watch the television, and bond together with friends and family as you all watch the glorious victories rain down on the athletes. We've been enjoying the Olympics for years and years to come...but, have you ever thought about how these games came to be? Believe it or not, but the games that we watch through our television every four years actually dates back to Greeks. Incredible, huh? We've been enjoying these games for centuries, and they've impacted so many things we rely and believe in today, including the government and even religion. Here, let me loom over the details some more...

While there are clear contrasts between the ancient and the modern Olympics there is still the respect for the athlete striving to perform at the highest level. Today, the Olympic Games are the world's largest carnival of athletic skill and competitive spirit. They are displays of nationalism, commerce, and politics. These important elements of the Olympics are not a modern invention, as the first Olympics was in 776 BC in Ancient Greece. After 1503 years, in 1896 the Olympic Games were recreated as what we know today. The Ancient Games were once dedicated to the Olympian God, Zeus Olympios and were staged on the ancient plains of Olympia, which is also how the word ‘Olympics’ originated from. The modern Olympics is the largest international sporting event, which feature both summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of respectable athletes from over 200 different nations compete against one another. There are clear contrast between the modern and ancient forms of the Olympic Games regarding uniforms, participants, religion, events, politics and the concept of amateurism. However both the Ancient Greeks and the people in the modern world still respect and admire the athletics achievements of the participants making the Olympics the most highly regarded contest in sport.

The events that occurred at the 1972 Olympics were the result of a long conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews dating to the end of the nineteenth century. Although the two groups have different religions (Palestinians include Muslims, Christians and Druze), religious differences are not the cause of the strife. The conflict began as a struggle over land. From the end of World War I until 1948, the area that both groups claimed was known internationally as Palestine. Following the war of 1948–1949, this land was divided into three parts: the State of Israel, the West Bank (of the Jordan River) and the Gaza Strip. It is a small area—approximately 10,000 square miles, or about the size of the state of Maryland. The situation can’t be reconcilable if one group has exclusive political control over all of it. Jewish claims to this land are based on the biblical promise to Abraham and his descendants, on the fact that the land was the historical site of the ancient Jewish kingdoms of Israel and Judea, and on Jews’ need for a haven from European anti-Semitism. Palestinian Arab claims to the land are based on their continuous residence in the country for hundreds of years and the fact that they represented the demographic majority until 1948. They reject the notion that a biblical-era kingdom constitutes the basis for a valid modern claim. Arabs maintain that since Abraham’s son Ishmael is the forefather of the Arabs, then God’s

2016 has been a year of progress for politics, social movements and especially sports as this year in Rio de Janeiro athletes raining from Syria to South Sudan put together a team of refugees to compete for the first time in history. They are coming to Rio in a group of 10 with nothing but their athletic abilities and dreams for gold. Only recently were they forged after narrowing down a list of 43 athletes to compete under the Olympic flag, as they walked into the opening ceremony before Brazil near the end of the processions.

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.

Every four years, an event is held that brings people from all around the world together: the Summer Olympics. The Summer Olympics are supposed to be an enjoyable event where athletes who have trained very hard compete for our entertainment and to earn an Olympic medal. However, the 2016 Olympics could have an entirely different feel to them. The 2016 games will be taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. When countries win the rights to host the game, they usually construct all sorts of expensive, beautiful arenas and venues to impress the hundreds of millions of viewers. The venues for the upcoming games in Brazil are far from beautiful. The natural bodies of water that will be hosting the rowing, canoeing, and other various aquatic