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Japan and Arab immigrants; allowing the country to have a diverse cultural history. Brazil has a very successful economy as well as stability in there government (Stambulova & Ryba, 2013, p. 64). Over the years the country has done very well in the winter and summer Olympics leading to them hosting the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. European Football

real women 's participation only began in Paris in 1924 with the inclusion of women 's athletics in the program. Winter sports were brought into the Olympic program through the organization of special winter Games, first held in France at Chamonix in 1924, with competitions in ice-hockey, speed skating, figure-skating, and skiing. These are still the basic events of the winter program, with the addition of bobsled and toboggan races. The most impressive event of the opening ceremony of the

most famous of all Greek sporting festivals. The beginning of the winter Olympics happened in the early 1900s. It consisted of “ski jump and bobsled as well as 12 other events involving a total of six sports. The ‘International Winter Sports Week’’(First Winter) In the beginning, only the Scandinavian countries were involved in these ‘Nordic Games’. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) wanted this to be its own separate winter competition instead of it just being a week. IOC wanted this to take

IV. Harnessing Technology Evidence of “best practices” While J.Crew is not known for having a mobile app or being public about their technological tricks, they are no stranger to using the Internet to get their messages and style across. J.Crew has a strong presence on social media platforms such as Instagram and Twitter. They tweet constantly and post pictures multiple times a day. This keeps the customers involved in the retail experience. Often times J.Crew will post pictures on Instagram simply

Nick Mootz Period 3 AP English 11 Eilertsen 3 Behind the Mask of the Olympics Most people think of the Olympics as just a way for the world to join together and athletically compete but hidden behind the curtain of glory and valor, natives suffer through poverty from the unbalanced economy that is correlated with the hosting of the Olympic games. CNN and other news channels manage to capture the fantastics of the games, but always seem to avoid the discrepancies within the host nation. Why should

Abstract Brazilians welcomed the long-awaited decision of making Rio de Janeiro the host of the 2016 Olympic Games with tremendous excitement. Although Rio’s fantastic natural beauty added to its attraction in hosting the games, its alarming rates of public health and security issues immediately triggered worldwide criticism. This makes the stakes very high when hosting the Olympic Games. This paper examines the process of risk assessment and risk response in relation Rio Olympics 2016. The paper

Most people know about or have at least heard about the winter and summer Olympic Games that take place around the world every 4 years. The events held at the Olympics exclude the deaf community due to the use of sound to queue the athletes. Due to this issue in 1924 the deaf community started and held their first Deaflympics, exclusively for only the deaf community. The early pioneers of the international deaf sports movement were Eugène Rubens-Alcais of France and Antoine Dresse of Belgium. Eugène

INTRODUCTION The gender verification has become a major controversy for women’s sports. The International of Olympic Committee (IOC) has made gender verification essential to female sports fearing that male would be a fraudulent to participate in a female sport. However, the purpose of the verification method is to create a fair competitive sports game for female athletes. Gender verifications can be considered a good method to sustain the integrity of sport, but the procedure of examining the athletes

On September 1st, 2006, the International Olympic Committee accepted the bid from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. The nation’s government proudly declared the news to the world, and began to prepare their nation to host one of the oldest and most prestigious sporting events in the world. Now that the dust has settled, many are beginning to question whether the hosting of the 2016 Olympic games was a blessing or a curse. The Olympic games are one of the oldest and most

Decades have passed and with time comes change, it should not come as a shock that as a society we’ve grown and developed. The way we consume sports, its mechanisms, and the culture behind it, has changed outstandingly. The effects that media has had on the sporting industry and consumerism in the past two decades have been tremendous. The development of high-definition tv’s, live streamed sporting events, video games, and even social media, has globalized sport and transformed the way fans and athletes