the Olympics think about how far women’s figure skating has come over time. (www.si.com) The intricate‚ elegant sport that is figure skating‚ and women’s figure skating is world-renowned. It’s has a come a long way since it was first invented‚ and even though the years with the hardships that have occurred in the past. Women’s figure skating is another example of how capable women are in athletics and how popular this sport has been for hundreds of years. Now let’s cheer on our 2018 Olympic Winter
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Ancient Greek Legacies Throughout Ancient Greece there have been many legacies. The Olympic Games were created and become part of history. Architecture influenced modern buildings. During these times‚ different types of literature were produced. Three greatest legacies of Ancient Greece are literature‚ the Olympic Games‚ and architecture. The Olympic Games was created because of a myth. It began when Oenomaus‚ the king of Olympia had a daughter named Hippodamia and wanted to compete with the person
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International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). Men’s ice hockey has been played at the Winter Olympics since 1924‚ and was in the 1920 Summer Olympics. Women’s ice hockey was added to the Winter Olympics in 1998. North America’s National Hockey League (NHL) is the strongest professional ice hockey league‚ drawing top ice hockey players from around the globe.[citation needed] The NHL rules are slightly different from those used in Olympic ice hockey over many categories.[citation needed] Ice hockey sticks are
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strenuous time‚ people looked to something‚ anything‚ to lift their spirits. They needed a reminder that everything might end up all right after the arduous problem at hand. During the hardships of the 1930s‚ sporting events such as baseball‚ the olympics‚ and boxing improved the morale of the people. Baseball played an influential role in giving people hope throughout the Great Depression. One of the main reasons why baseball improved the morale of the people in the 1930s is because some of the
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set a world interscholastic record in 1934‚ running a mile in 4 minutes and 21 seconds. His next goal? The 5000 meters in the 1936 Nazi Olympics in Berlin‚ Germany. Louie qualified for the Olympics by tying with word-record holder Don Lash. At 19 years of age‚ he was the youngest US qualifier ever in the 5000 meters. Although he finished eighth at the Olympics‚ his last lap was enough to catch the eye and earn a compliment from Adolf Hitler. "You’re the boy with the fast finish." was all Hitler
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Cool Runnings is a movie about four Jamaican men named Derice Bannock‚ Junior Bevil‚ Yul Brenner‚ and Irv Blitzer who set out to raise money in order to compete in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary‚ Alberta as a bobsled team. The group of men tried a few different ways to raise the money to go compete and they seemed to keep failing. Finally one of the men decided to sell his car in order to help them reach their money goal. After Junior sold his car the team were on their way to Calgary
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disqualified. Some of the professional athletes in the olympics were also using drugs‚ that is why drug testing was introduced at the olympics in 1968. A breakthrough took place in 1983‚ when newly developed technology for analyzing the blood for drugs was created. Of the 21‚849 drug test conducted at the summer olympics from 1968-2008 there was a 105 cases of drugs violations. There has been 22 positive results from 7‚783 test conducted at the winter olympics between 1969 and 2010. Most athletes that use
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proving you can do anything that you put your mind to. The movie begins with Olympic hopeful Derice‚ running across Jamaica. He is doing this because he is training for the 1988 Olympic Games‚ and hopes to be a gold-medal winner just like his father was.. Then later on in the day‚ it’s race time. He’s confident he can represent Jamaica because he has been training for a long time for it. The whole country comes to watch the Olympic hopefuls compete in hope to represent the country . Derice and all the
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things in the film that we could learn learn from in life. First‚ it is the determination. In fact‚ the greatest determination is that four young men living in the hot Jamaica country practiced hard bobsledding on the grass to complete in the winter Olympic Games in Calgary Canada. Furthermore‚ in order to go to Canada‚ they convinced local authorities with perseverance by knocking on doors to support them‚ and try to do everything in their might to earn money. In addition‚ they were real athletes
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attributed an important part of its success to high profile sponsorships such as its Olympic Games sponsorship. Visa also sponsored numerous events such as the Rugby World Cup‚ Best of Broadway‚ the Toronto Film Festival‚ NASCAR‚ the NFL‚ the Visa Triple Crown‚ and the Paralympics‚ and has an international alliance with The Walt Disney Company. In the fall of 2002‚ Visa announced its decision to extend its Olympic Games sponsorship through 2012. Its original sponsorship deal was structured through
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