2018 Winter Olympics

The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games marked a significant shift in the attitude of the Olympics in relation to environmental sustainability. The Bid Committee of the Sydney 2000 Games prepared the Environmental Guidelines for the Summer Olympic Games, which were released in 1993 before the city of Sydney won the bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games. These guidelines played a major role in influencing many members of the IOC to choose Sydney to host the 2000 Olympic Games. In addition, the guidelines acted

Last Saturday (9-Dec), 88 athletes and 7 teams from the Pacific Northwest association competed at the USATF National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships in Tallahassee, Florida. A total of 3,139 athletes and 227 teams from all 50 states competed in the championships. The races were conducted under unseasonably cold and damp conditions with temperatures in the low 40s throughout the day. Rain fall from the previous days left the course soggy and muddy in spots. Athletes earned spots

change. I see the Olympics as politics in action. Its about countries fighting to see who is better, where it is no talk and all action and can sometimes be bloody, but they still end it with good sportsmanship something politicians could learn from. Around the time of the Winter Olympics of 1980 (XIII) where a lot of political events around the world. In February 1973 Lake Placid bid to host the 1980 winter Olympics to stop the embracement of losing the 1976 winter Olympics for not having enough

2016 saw the Republican National Convention July 18-21 in Cleveland, Ohio and one week later July 25-28, the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, PA. These conventions both had the fanfare of National Conventions of old and the added benefit of an economic increase to the local business and tourism industries in each of the areas. The venue also brought continued animosity, a media frenzy, protests. and boycotts that escalated on the road to each convention, continued through to the election

From the peak of the Empire State, she could scrutinize the world skid sleekly through her peripherals. However, it was not the world, just her world and hers only. Just a single vivid, scintillating, and breathing mass, an athlete's heart through the midst of the suspenseful annual Boston Marathon. There was a manifold of people, the blood and fuel that has been powering this lively fourteen thousand, six hundred acres for a multitudinous past and equally unique years. The near two million inhabitants

Olympic Games and World Unity The Olympic Games is considered as the biggest sporting event across the globe that attracts a huge number of participants and viewed by billions of people across the globe. The games not only generate a great deal of enthusiasm worldwide but it also creates a platform for people from various cultures and nationalities to interact. The modern Olympic Games were founded in 1896 with high expectations that they may assist in uniting countries of the world in understanding

“And the final whistle blows. Paris Saint-Germain thrashes Real Madrid in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final 4-1,” the commentator said. As I trudged to the locker room my mind raced in disbelief. We really lost to the underdog team 4-1. As the main striker, I failed to do my job which was to score. I really believed our Champions League campaign was over after one leg. Without the Champions League, we would finish the season without a trophy as Barcelona have already secured the Spanish

Shaun White “You show up at the Olympics, and you’re no longer you, you’re an American Olympian. Your part of this greater whole and the individual doesn't matter” (“Shaun White”BrainyQuote). This quote was said by Shaun White when he won his first Olympic medal. September 3d, 1986 in San Diego, California a snowboard and skateboard legend was born. Also born with a congenital heart defect, White had two cardiac surgeries before age five. Known as the Flying Tomato, Shaun White is an accomplished

The Olympic Games are an international sports festival that began in ancient Greece. The original Greek games were staged every fourth year for several hundred years, until they were abolished in the early Christian era. The revival of the Olympic Games took place in 1896, and since then they have been staged every fourth year, except during World War I and World War II (1916, 1940, 1944). Perhaps the basic difference between the ancient and modern Olympics is that the former was the ancient Greeks’

Achieving Commercial Viability vs. Upholding Olympism and the Olympic Values: Critically Consider the Strategic Position of the IOC Baron Pierre de Coubertin, created the concept of Olympism, which is defined as “a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind.” (Olympism as a Philosophy of Social Reform) However, as rising costs became a more apparent threat for host countries, the IOC decided to compromise olympism for commercialism in order