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    During the 1930s, the Olympic Games started playing a large role in politics. Before 1936, Nazi supporters disapproved the Olympics, claiming it was a "festival dominated by Jews." This opinion changed in 1930, when Berlin was awarded the privilege to host the Olympic games. Hitler, the chancellor of Germany while preparations for the quadrennial sports event were taking place, decided that the games would have great propaganda value, and allow him to present his prestigious regime. There were many

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    The Olympics is a very important event, its where some people like Simone Biles and Gabby Douglas perform their amazing gymnast skills. Believe it or not, there are some similarities between these two olympians. A similarity between Simone Biles and Gabby Douglas is that for one, they're both in the olympics, and both are famous because of their skills as Gymnastics. The third similarity is both did the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. My last similarity is both have given up things to be in

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    Have you ever seen or heard people say that the Olympics are not fair because of people’s size? Do you think size matters? People say tall people have an advantage over the short people because the tall people have longer legs, but with that being said with a bigger body you are heaver so it all come to be even in the end. I believe that the Olympics are fair, but if you think not I will persuade you with facts from the past and the present. If you still do not believe me after this essay you need

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    What If Tonya Was Black

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    have already made up their mind about Tonya Harding. Therefore, before the biopic movie I, Tonya even hits the big screen, the audience including Liberal critics already formulated their own conclusion of her. This movie is about a disgraced former Olympic figure skater who started out as a poor girl who was physically abused by her mother then by her husband. Nevertheless, the movie is a comedy sketch and was nominated at the Golden Globes for best Musical or Comedy. It was reported that during a

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    Every four years cities around the world have the chance to host the largest sporting event in the world, the Olympics. An event where the most skilled athletes the planet come to light. These men and women are all striving for one thing, a gold medal. In 1936 a young African American male had a choice, to sit home and protest anti-Semitism or prove to Adolf Hitler that having blonde hair, blue eyes, and white skin doesn't mean you’re the best Olympian. That young man’s name was Jesse Cleveland Owens

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    The Olympic games are held to show pride and diversity of the many different countries throughout the world through sports. The Olympics are held to bring all countries together to meet. When people from around the world are watching the Olympic games, they are not rooting for one individual athlete, but for their country. The Olympic games should not have a permanent host site because it is an opportunity to showcase that country to the world, gives countries economic gains, and provides an opportunity

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    Rights fees, networks pay fees to have the rights to a particular broadcast, for example march madness, the NFL or the Olympics. Rights fees are determined by the value a certain property holds, this is determined by the ratings. The most important ratings market world wide is undisputedly the North American, and in particular the US market as we will later discuss with the Olympic media coverage. With in the US it is a battle field to increase ratings because of the dollar value associated with

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    Terrorism and Security in the Olympics Security is a fundamental notion in sports. Nowadays athletes are viewed often through the media, therefore they are recognizable. In the Olympics security measures must be taken to protect the athletes. There are many different nationalities involved therefore security has to be taken in order to ensure that there aren't conflicting views that could possibly be damaging towards another team. But quite often it cannot be prevented. On the morning of

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    Sports development 3 Task one There are many methods used in measuring quality in sports development. One method is attendances at sporting activities or local participation levels. These methods have not provided consistency across some methods to do so. As a result of this, and to gain benefits from the scheme, a many number of schemes have been developed to measure quality in sports development. The main idea of this scheme is to Measure characteristics and attributes of a programme

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    affected the careers of many elite athletes. Athletes who test positive for drugs at the Olympic level are stripped of their medals and records and are suspended from all competition for two years on the first offense. In 1988, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of a gold medal and was later banned from track-and-field competition for life after he tested positive for steroids. At the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, Romanian gymnast Andrea Raducan had her gold medal taken away

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