The olympics is a game where the most talented athletes from across the world come together and compete against one another in different sports like Basketball‚ Soccer‚ Swimming ‚ gymnastics ‚ fencing ‚ volleyball‚ beach volleyball‚ track and field and many more sports you can think of. About 206 countries and more than eleven thousand athletes participate. The olympics is held in a different country every two years alternating between winter and summer sports‚ it starts at the first week of august
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Sports‚ in the context of our present day society‚ cover a vast range of activities‚ such as athletics‚ bowling‚ basketball‚ soccer‚ etc. Any game or competition that is designed to test physical skill is considered a sport; hence the list of sports can go on endlessly. In the past‚ all these were only very simple games‚ but they have evolved tremendously over the years and now‚ have become very professional sports‚ with many high-tech equipment to boost the sportsman’s performance. Take bowling
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Olympics DBQ There are many different factors that have shaped the modern Olympic movement from 1892 to 2002. It was originally revived so people of different races could interact with other people without conflict. They wanted to have a temporary time of international peace. This idea is expressed in Document 1. The author‚ Pierre de Coubertin‚ explains how the athletes are exported into other lands without any hostility. The author is credible because he is also the founder of the modern Olympic
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The Ancient Olympic Games is a series of competitions held between representatives of several city-states from Ancient Greece‚ which featured mainly athletic but also combat and chariot racing events.[1] The origin of these Olympics is shrouded in mystery and legend.[2] One of the most popular myths identifies Heracles and his father Zeus as the progenitors of the Games.[3][4][5] According to legend‚ it was Heracles who first called the Games "Olympic" and established the custom of holding them every
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Sport for All Concept Introduction The term “Sport for all” has been presented since 1966 and established by the Council of Europe. The sport for all concept includes all form of recreational and competitive physical activity. As we can say that this concept has been spread to public for 46 years until this years 2012. Sport for all concept has been used to attract people especially for all age and gender to invovle in sport and its not for only those who have abilities to paticipate. It also mean
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in Sports My high school cross country coach once told me‚ “Ryan‚ greatness isn’t just given out; you have to go out and earn it. You can only earn it through an extreme amount of hard work and sacrifice.” Today how ever in the twenty first century this statement can become a lie. Greatness no longer requires the same amount of dedication as it did fifty years ago. Everyday greatness is given in the forms of needles and small pills. The doping situation in professional and amateur sports has
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Is sports too closely linked to politics? The scope of sports has changed to include many aspects today‚ such as commercialization‚ endorsement and moneymaking opportunities. However sports continue to remain closely linked to politics‚ it may sometimes cross over the line of being overly linked to politics. Sports diplomacy is when sports are used as a political tool to enhance (or sometime worsen) diplomatic relationship between two entitles. The nature of sports is changed when parties get
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Wrestling By: Quinton Abrahamson Olympic wrestling is a grueling and very strenuous sport that most people could not commit to. The greats of the sport have put in enormous amounts of work to get as far as they got. Olympic wrestling is a very important sport and takes a lot of hard work to participate in. There’s a lot of history behind olympic wrestling and a lot of stuff that led up to it becoming an olympic sport. There are two types of wrestling in the olympics‚ which kind of tells you that wrestling
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we should keep the Olympics or should not keep the Olympics. To some people we should keep the Olympics‚ to other people we should not keep the Olympics. I believe we should keep the Olympics because it is a fantastic way for the best athletes in the world to show what they can do. Also‚ it is a good way to keep athletes healthy. People are saying we should not keep the Olympics because the Olympics do not have all the sports. Yes they do not have all sports‚ but the Olympics keep growing so they
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INDIA AND MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES By Neeraj Kumar Mehra Research Scholar An Essay Submitted to Professor. Ian Jobling Professor. Karl Lennartz Professor. Kostas Georgiadis December‚ 2010 India 1 Contents Introduction I. II. III. IV. V. VI. India and the Olympic Movement Indian Olympic Association‚ formation and contribution India and Modern Olympic Games Recent developments in Olympic movement in India Conclusion Annexure VII. Bibliography 2 INDIA AND THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT Introduction The
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