When and where was the first Modern Olympic Games held? How many countries and athletes participated? How many countries and athletes competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and 2010 Vancouver Games? 1896 Summer Olympics was the 1st celebration of the modern Olympic Games. They had 14 nations participating and 241 athletes competed. In Beijing in 2008‚ there were 204 nations that competed with 10‚942 athletes. In 2010‚ the Vancouver Games had 82 countries competing with 2566 athletes.
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The modern Olympics is an international event where both men and women participate in a certain sport to represent the country they originated from. To facilitate the modern Olympics as we know it today‚ the Olympic movement‚ which dated from 1892 to 2002‚ was shaped by many things. A few examples are nationalism‚ gender‚ economics‚ and diplomacy. Gender is an important factor that shaped the Olympic movement because it shows how women slowly progress from a lower social rank to equality between
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The sociocultural environment encapsulates demand and tastes‚ which vary with fashion‚ disposable income‚ and general changes‚ can again provide both opportunities and threats for particular companies (Thompson‚ 2002; Pearce and Robinson‚ 2005). Over-time most products change from being a novelty to a situation of market saturation‚ and as this happens pricing and promotion strategies have to change. Similarly‚ some products and services will sell around the world with little variation‚ but these
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The 2012 Summer Olympics‚ officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad‚[2] and also more generally known as London 2012‚ was a major international multi-sport event‚ celebrated in the tradition of the Olympic Games‚ as governed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)‚ that took place in London‚ United Kingdom‚ from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The first event‚ the group stages in women’s football‚ began two days earlier‚ on 25 July.[3][4] More than 10‚000 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs)
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London Olympics 2012- London has hosted the Olympic Games on two past occasions‚ in 1908 and 1948‚ with a third scheduled for 2012. The planned 2012 Summer Olympics will make London the first city to have hosted the modern Games of three Olympiads. London is the only city in the United Kingdom to have ever hosted the Olympics; the United States is the only country to have hosted Summer Olympics on more occasions than the UK. No city in the UK has hosted the Winter Olympic Games. British participation
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Judaism and many more have different buying patterns and opinions for any products they buy (Wilson 2005). The Adidas Group has penetrated most countries so all these social attributes play very important roles in deciding the company’s strategy. PEST ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGICAL FACTORS Technological advances in things like machinery will have an affect on the Adidas Group. The latest Technology can speed up production‚ save energy or cut down labour costs. Currently the world has become a small village
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PEST Analysis for Sony Corporation POLITICAL FACTORS Political factors for Sony Corporation can be changed at any time. TheGovernment holds the power to change any policies and regulationswhich may affect Sony at the time. The credit crunch and the recession may become reduced‚ therefore resulting in better trades for Sony Corporation. However this also means that the same has occurred for Sony¶s competitors. This means that Sony must develop ideas on how to stay ahead of its competitors. The
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A generation of Suffolk Sporting talent inspired by Olympic flame The Suffolk Youth Games completed its inspirational journey from the millennium to the Olympics yesterday and bowed out in a blaze of glory as the Olympic Torch visited the closing ceremony. Around 800 young people representing Suffolk’s sporting future converged on Bury St Edmunds on Saturday 7th July for the thirteenth staging of the Redrow Homes Suffolk Youth Games. The event‚ organised by Suffolk Sport‚ the County Sports Partnership
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In 1896‚ the Olympic Games were officially reborn into the modern era thanks to a Frenchman named Baron Pierre de Coubertin (Lewis‚ 1992). In 1904‚ the Games of the III Olympiad arrived in the United States‚ marking itself as the first Olympics to be held in said country as well as the first hosted outside of Europe. Often forgotten‚ this specific Olympics also signifies the beginning of the horrible luck Chicago‚ Illinois‚ has had regarding the hosting rights. Three years prior‚ the International
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The Winter Olympics The Winter Olympics‚ exactly like their summer counterpart‚ is an international event to celebrate global peace and the best athletes humanity has to offer. Ever since its inception in the 1924 Games in Chamonix‚ France‚ the Winter Olympics has evolved in terms of events‚ economic impact‚ and technology. The first Winter Olympic Games were actually called “The International Winter Sports Week” and lasted eleven days in the French Alps. Events included alpine and cross-country
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