2022 Winter Olympics

past you on the final lap. It all comes down to this, less than half a second until it’s all over. You finish and win the game. How is the setting different from the first Olympics to the Olympics today? This speech will explore the history and purpose of the Olympic Games, and how this has changed overtime. The Olympics were founded to bring together different cultures and to promote peace. However, this isn’t what happened at all; the games abused human rights and gave control to government

The “Miracle on Ice” was more than just the United States Olympic Ice Hockey Team winning a game. The win for the United States had major political impacts on the United States, the Soviet Union and the Cold War. The Soviet Union entered the Lake Placid games as the favorite, having won the last four ice hockey gold medals all the way back to the 1964 games. In the four Olympics following their 1960 loss to Team USA at Squaw Valley, Soviet teams had gone 27–1–1 and outscored the opposition 175–44

and title of Louis Zamperinis’ autobiography. Louis Zamperini lived a powerful and meaningful life that has inspired thousands of people. Zamperini was a troubled youth, a track star from the town of Torrance California with impressive records, an Olympic athlete, World War Two Bombardier, Alcoholic, Airplane crash survivor, Japanese Prisoner of War, Inspirational speaker and a founder of a camp for troubled youths. Louis has done it all and was truly a man ‘Unbroken’ by the world. Louis Zamperini

From the beginning of the modern Olympic Games in 1896 the games have been the essence of how sports can directly affect politics. “The Olympic Games are arguably the most popular multi-sporting event in the world. As of 2010, twenty-three Nations and thirty-nine separate cities have hosted the Olympics since its revival in 1896” (Saum 8). The 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games has been labeled as a “case study”, examining the relationship between sports and politics, and how they affect each other. Some

Ashlee Cortez HCOM 211, Section 15 Research Paper Rough Draft 10 December 2014 Jamaican Bobsledding 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

tangible ways, domesticated” (Caldwell 2004:241). This idea of local versus global has shaped the Olympic Games. Anna Tsing, author of “The Global Situation,” discusses the idea that the global and local do not stop at a physical place. (Tsing 2000:77). It cannot stop at the physical; if so, then there would be no distinction between global and local. As can be seen with the Olympics. The Olympic Games are globalized, so many different cultures are brought to one city for two weeks every four years

especially tourism and hospitality. It is a big trend in tourism industry, lots of people because Olympic Games, stars, attractions and movies are fascinated. Because of this kind of industry, it will be a high salary in tourism and hospitality. Also, it will increase income tax, marking, local communities, great attractions, historical staff and natural environment. This paper will talk about Olympic Games impact tourism and hospitality why they rise taxes and marketing, and why impact local communities

children and adults. Their target audience for this campaign was families but specifically, athletes and their mothers. P&G wanted to moms to be synonymous with the 2004 Winter Olympic Games. The opportunity that they wanted to leverage was all the media coverage on the athletes themselves and their moms and the Winter Olympics hosted in Sochi, Russia. The programming that P&G used was directed mostly at social networks/sites and television media. 101 days before Sochi they globally premiered the

going to the Olympics without me, which doesn’t seem to bother her. The doctor said it’s a long road ahead, for my recovery. My stomach dropped as I felt the rush of anxiety starting to take over my body, bit by bit, as butterflies in my stomach grew. The hospital would be my 2nd home for a while. Getting rehab, seeing physios, regular check ups, this is my life now but it wasn’t the one I thought I would live. I am meant be on my way to Switzerland in a few months for the winter Olympics, but I cannot

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. Impact on Host Country For the social impact on the host country, the Olympic Games primarily boost the nationalistic pride of the citizens. The Olympic Games increases the civic pride of the residents, and this is thought to increase individual philanthropic giving. Similarly, hosting the Olympics causes local companies to increase