Swimming at the Summer Olympics

2016 The Legacy of the Baltimore Bullet Known as the Baltimore Bullet or Flying Fish (Olympics), Michael Phelps is also known as an Olympian, writer, philanthropist, and one who has had legal problems; identities that come together in an athlete that has left a legacy that may never be surpassed. Showing dominance extending from the beginning of his career to the very end, he is the greatest athlete that the swimming world, and perhaps even the entire world of sports has ever seen. Phelps’s unprecedented

in each year. These four seasons include Summer, Winter, Fall, and Spring. Each season affects various aspects of our everyday lives in their own way. For Example, winter and summer changes almost everything that we do during both of the times that each season occurs. Some differences of summer and winter is temperature changes and precipitation changes. One similarity is that the Olympics are taken place in both seasons. Many people view winter and summer as antonyms; however, the two seasons share

The Olympic games started many centuries ago,and still exit to this day.there were allot of sports and other things to do in the Olympics. For example running,long jump,shot put,javelin,discus,wrestling,boxing,Pakration,and equestrian competitions.Today we have those same sports but there are more there is basketball,dancing,and swimming. One of the Olympic games many centuries ago that was popular was horse racing.They took place in the Hippodrome from the Greek words [for horse and

In the article “Swimming for Her Life,” by Kristan Lewis describes how a girl named Yusura went through many hardships to have her dream come true. At a young age Yusura and her sister, Sarah loved to swim and were really good at it. Yusura grew up in Damascus, Syria. At age 13 a deadly civil war broke out, and everyone was in danger. In 2015 Yusura and her sister decided to flee. They knew they would lose their home, their things, and their friends but also knew they wouldn’t

An inspiration to women everywhere; an inspiration to athletes everywhere; an inspiration to Canadians everywhere. During the 2016 Summer Olympics, Oleksiak became Canada’s youngest Olympic champion, winning gold in the women’s 100m freestyle swim and setting a new Olympic record, as well as becoming the first Canadian in history to win four medals at the same Summer Games. It was a moment that will be remembered in our country’s history for years to come. Oleksiak reached the halfway mark of

you think of the Olympics, sports like gymnastics, soccer, swimming, hockey and many more events probably come to mind. However, very few of the sports that are competed in now existed when the Olympics first began. They have evolved considerably over the last 3,000 years. First of all, there were very few events compared to how many there are now. Also, the Olympics went from only being known in Greece to being “the world’s preeminent sporting competition.” (History) The Olympics can be traced back

resurrected in a modern setting. The olympics have expanded in size, events, stadiums, and athletes since then. From 12 nations, 206 athletes, 60,000 spectators, and 43 events, to 206 countries 11, 237 athletes, 2.3 billion viewers, and 306 events the olympics have changed greatly. Since 1896, the changing of the world has influenced the events, places, and arenas in the games. The history of the Olympics is fascinating and unlike than the current olympics. The modern olympics can be traced back to 1896.

comparing are the London 2012 Olympic Games and the Moulsham High School sports day. Throughout this assessment I will be comparing the two different sporting events in terms of scale, planning, promotion and delivery to see what goes into making a great sporting event. Both these events are very different in terms of how they are run so by comparing them I will get a very good idea on how different sporting events organisation is for different situations. The Olympic Games are leading international

occurrence), capitalism, communism, and socialism. We have Soviet textbooks that can teach us these things, but are they all really there? In 69 years as a country, the Soviet Union accomplished many great things. The Great Terror, military strength, and Olympic values: should be included in their textbooks to remember this time in history. One of the things Soviet textbooks should include is the story of the Great Terror. According to Document C, “ The Great Terror was the most cruel tortures, interrogations

and one bronze in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. By then, his fame was already on the rise, but what happened in the 1972 Olympics is what he will be remembered for. After being disappointed in himself for not doing as well as he hoped in Mexico City, he vowed to go to the next Olympics and come home with seven golds. True to his word, in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, Mark Spitz became the first person to win seven gold medals in a single Olympic Games. He swept the competition