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.

Hosting the Olympic Games is thought of as one of the great honor that a country can receive in the eyes of the world. By hosting the Olympic Games, this can provide a host country the opportunity to represent their nation-states with a universally legitimate way to present and promote their national identities and culture. The 2008 Beijing Olympics played a significant role in the social life of China and efficiently influence not only the history and grand socioeconomics transformation and modernization of China, but also the rest of the world, making it one of the most successful Olympiad in history.

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).

I have gone to only three volunteer sessions and have read lots about the Special Olympics Canada (SOC). SOC wants there to be social integration so Special Olympics offers athletes a choice, the choice to train and compete in any sport. No matter their level of disability, age, religion, race, socioeconomic status or place of origin. SOC tries to reach every Canadian community so people understand who they are and how to access their programs. The SOC staff consists of people who have a passion for the sport and who are deliciated on giving the best programs/support for all those involved to enrich their personal health and safety. Subcommittees and strong teams of volunteers strive to meet those expectations. It is reinforced that every athlete's

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In 1988, the Winter Olympics were held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  One of the most remembered events within the Winter Olympics was the debut of the Jamaican National Bobsled team.  Bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of two or four sled down tight, winding ice tracks.  It is done in a cart that is called a bobsled; “a large usually metal sled used in racing and equipped with two pairs of runners in tandem, a long seat for two or more people, a steering wheel, and a hand brake” (Webster Dictionary). The Jamaican underdogs in the competition were highly underestimated by their opponents. The four historical Jamaican men that participated in the games were considered the most influential bobsledders of all time. Dudley Stokes, Devon Harris, Michael White, and Chris Stokes were the four men that changed the face of bobsleigh.  One of the most common known movies still today that references the 1988 Winter Olympics is called “Cool Runnings.”  Although the situation itself is the same as in the story, the storyline differs from what happens in the movie.

The story of the United States Olympic Hockey team has been presented as feature films, documentaries and books. The miracle may have happened over three decades ago, but it continues to ring loudly in the hearts of Americans as if the initial celebration was still carrying on in the streets of Lake Placid that were bursting with national pride. Sports have a uniting factor on countries around the world and the United States is no different. A look into our history and you will find plenty of moments where Americans stood together to chant "U-S-A, U-S-A!" to those chosen to represent our country. The United States hockey team's defeat of the Soviet Union was just that. It wasn't just a hockey game. It was so much more.

Before I begin my paper I wanted to give a little history on the background of the Special Olympics. The first International Special Olympics Games were held at Soldier Field in Chicago 1968. It was originally started by a woman named Anne McGlone Burke, who was a physical education teacher with the Chicago Park school district. She began with the idea for a one-time Olympic-style athletic competition for people with special needs. Burke then contacted Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who was the head of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation to fund the event. Mrs. Shriver loved the idea and encouraged Ms. Burke to expand on the idea and the JPK Foundation gave a grant of $25,000. More than 1,000 athletes from all over the United States and

As soon as I heard the news about an unprofessional winter olympics, I rushed to the nearest ice skating rink; i knew i wanted to figure skate. I carefully laced up a pair of skates and stepped onto the ice, instantly slipping on the slick ground.

It is now the First Annual North Pole Olympics! Reindeer will be compering in the new North Pole arena. Elfs will be watching and Santa Claus is the judge. There will be two games: A go-kart race and a round of VR freeze tag!

The movie is supposed to be about the first four Jamaican bobsledders who dreamed of competing in the Winter Olympics, despite never having seen snow. With a disgraced former champion as a coach, who is desperate to redeem himself, the Jamaicans set out to become worthy of Olympic selection, and go all out for pride and glory. Although the characters do swear in this movie, the Jamaican bobsledders have to work hard in order to overcome struggle. This movie is most certainly funny from the characters saying cheesy things to having to surpass embarrassing moments. Not only is this movie cheesy, but it can also be quite educational by having an insight of the Jamaican culture.

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Approximately twelve sports have been discontinued since the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. These include baseball, softball, lacrosse, croquet, cricket, Jeu de Paume, tug-of-war, pelota, polo, roque, rackets, and motor boating. In Winter Olympics there was Military patrol and alpinism. The most recently discontinued sports were baseball and softball, dropped in 2012, however they will be back for the 2020 Olympics. This was the first time in 69 years that a sport (not a specific event) had been dropped since polo in 1936. In addition to this a great number of events from sports have been dropped, for example: swimming events of plunge for distance and underwater swimming, the

From the time when, the Summer Olympics began, in 1896, the idea of a separate Winter Games had been debated. It appears that when the first modern Olympics were being agreed upon, the organizers sought for winter sports as well, but there was difference as to the venues and events. Meanwhile, from 1901 Sweden every 4 years, held the world’s first organized winter games. The “Nordic Games” were conquered by Sweden, Norway and Finland. The Scandinavians sought to retain the games on an amateur base and were solemn at that time that the Olympics were not. In 1908 at the London Olympics, held figure skating events as part of the Olympic program. Between those two events, the International Olympic Committee contended long and hard about the likelihood of a performance of an Olympic Winter Games. The main disapproval to this idea were from the Scandanavian countries since they didn’t want their Nordic Games to be destabilized by Olympic Winter events. The Italians proposed such an event in 1911, the Scandinavia fighting the idea of the Winter Olympics as it would weaken the Nordic Games, staged in Sweden in 1905, 1909 and 1913. The Italians recommended the Nordic Game be retitled the “Winter Olympics", but this thought didn't please the Scandinavians. The first reawakening of the Olympic games arose in 1896 in Athens, Greece. In 1908, the games were hosted in Great Britain, figure skating appeared on the program, and a man by the name of Panin won the first and only medal