Olympics Dbq Analysis

The Olympics are series of events that countries from all around the world come together and compete against each other in. The Olympics have had both bad and positive effects on the world, and its countries. Women, political tensions, and economics are a few factors that have shaped the modern Olympic movement from 1892 to 2002. One factor that has shaped the Olympics, is women. Two percent of the athletes competing in the 1908 games were women (Doc 2). Twenty nine percent of the athletes competing in the 1992 games were women (Doc 8). There was a lot of discrimination against women in the early Olympic games. A women competitor, Hassiba Boulmerka, felt a great amount of criticism during the games because she was a girl. She is an Algerian women, which might have affected her feelings with the criticism. Political tensions were also another factor that shaped the Olympics. A 1936 British Olympic team official, Arnold Lunn, stated that the Nazi skiers would use any method possible to win the games (Doc 3). Bob Matthias, a United States
The founder of the modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin, believed that the Olympics were the true free trade of the future, that could help increase economics(Doc 1). In 1892, Europe was enduring a lot of political tension, he may have believed that trade could help calm the political tensions and boost the economy (Doc 1). Countries that have been chosen to host the Olympic games, have greatly benefited from it. For example, Japan greatly appreciated their being chosen for the Olympics because, they felt it had helped them recover after their defeat in the World War (Doc 7). The senses of appreciation showed the world that the Olympics gave good exposure to the host country (Doc 5). The amount of viewers of the Olympics has greatly risen from around 100 people in 1980 to about 1,300 people in 2000 (Doc 9). This could be a result of better/more amounts of