The Olympic Games have been around since ancient times. The games have been used as spiritual‚ religious‚ as well as entertainment events. These games began with the Greeks‚ the division between the male and female sexes were relevant as early as 10th century B.C. Olympic games among ancient times didn’t allow females to participate within the games. In fact‚ the games didn’t even allow females to attend and watch the games. In 1896‚ Baron Pierre de Coubertin resurrected the Olympics and still no
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A$300mn was generated by local business. Over 55‚000 people received employment related training. If London hosted the Olympic games‚ thousands of UK firms could be involved in supplying everything from construction to manufacturing‚ catering to merchandise. (http://www.sportengland.org/2012_uk.htm) Boost to tourism The tourist industry won’t just boom during the four weeks that the Olympic and Paralympic games actually take place‚ but for months and years before and after the event. Price Waterhouse
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with the fresh upbeat 2014 winter Olympic news. Shannon: Today we will be focusing on hockey legend Sidney Crosby‚ who secured Canada’s record fourteenth gold medal of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics when he scored the golden goal. Nazlie: The Team Canada roster has been released for the upcoming Olympic Games and it has been revealed that Crosby will represent Canada on the men’s ice hockey team in Sochi this February. This will be his second Winter Olympics that he has participated in and hopefully
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trudgen to Western swimming competitions‚ after copying the front crawl used by Native Americans. Due to a British dislike of splashing‚ Trudgen employed a scissor kick instead of the front crawl’s flutter kick. Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens. In 1902 Richmond Cavill introduced the front crawl to the Western world. In 1908‚ the world swimming association‚ Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA)‚ was formed. Butterfly was developed in the 1930s and was at first
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Winning Heights in the Men’s Olympic High Jumps Introduction: The Olympics are an international sporting event that is held every four years where people from around the world send their best athletes to compete and see who the best of the best is when it comes to sports. The Olympics date back to Ancient Greece where their basic events included track and field‚ which are like men’s high jump which is the topic of this report. In this problem we are looking at the data collected from the gold
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The Olympic Games - London 2012 London is one of the great and most diverse world cities – and that means it’s always growing and changing. Winning the bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games has provided a boost to London’s renewal‚ giving the opportunity to enhance and accelerate existing plans‚ and making new projects possible. The Games will take place throughout July – September 2012: Olympics takes place 27th July – 12th August Paralympics takes place 29th August
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The 1936 Summer Olympics‚ officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad‚ was an international multi-sport event which was held in 1936 in Berlin‚ Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona‚ Spain on April 26‚ 1931. Nazi Germany saw this as an opportunity to show a positive image of the third Reich to the rest of the world. The Olympics were a perfect arena for the Nazi propaganda machine‚ which was unsurpassed at staging elaborate public spectacles and rallies. Choreographed
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Sustainability and the London 2012 Olympic Games This report will explore the importance of sustainability in today’s sports and illuminate the significance of the interplay between sports - the 2012 London Olympics in particular - and the environment. In addition a summary of the sustainability plan put forward by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) to the International Olympic Committee (IOC)‚ as part of their bid to host the recent Olympic Games. This will include
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One difference between the ancient and modern Olympic Games is that the ancient games were played within the context of a religious festival. One of the more intriguing true stories about ancient Greece and the Olympics of ancient Greece would have to be that during the Olympic Games‚ all fighting stopped. No matter how long or how fierce a battle had raged‚ every soldier in the battlefield put down his weapons and travelled to Olympia‚ there they would compete in athletic games designed to honour
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examination paper Summary of "Competitive sport for children at the heart of Olympics legacy" The Prime Minister David Cameron wants sports in a new primary school. He thinks it is the Governments job‚ after the The Olympics in London 2012‚ to give inspiration to more competitive sport in the schools. He means that how the primary school are now it has to many rules and no recognisable sport like you see in the Olympics. He is working on a new Physical Education programme for the schools which
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