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    Topic: Should Olympics be ran safer? Side: Pro ______________________________________________________________________ Thesis: Olympic games need to be run more safely for the protection of the athletes Do you know that at least 9 people died at the Olympic games. _____________________________________________________________________ Do you know that at least 9 people have died at the Olympic games or during their practice sessions before the Olympic games? In Whistler British Columbia Canada at the

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    15–34. Getz‚ D. (1991) Festivals‚ Special Events‚ and Tourism. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. Hall‚ C.M. (1992) Hallmark Tourist Events: Impacts‚ Management and Planning. London: Belhaven Press. Kasimati‚ E. (2003) ‘Economic aspects and the Summer Olympics: a review of related research’‚ International Journal of Tourism Research 5: 433–444. Loftman‚ P. & Spirou‚ C. (1996) ‘Sports stadiums and urban regeneration: the British and United States Experience’. Paper to the conference Tourism and Culture:

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    changed a lot are hockey‚ baseball and the Olympics. Hockey’s National Hockey League got started in 1920‚ which is still around today. The game has changed slightly since its beginning but it is not a whole different game. Baseball hasn’t changed much and it doesn’t have to because it is just as exciting as it was when it became popular in the ’20’s and ’30’s. For the Olympics every 2 years the same magic is there today as there has always been. The game of hockey became a professional sport way

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    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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    Matte/page1/Soccer Assignment #1 – Expository Writing Piece Joshua 8/10/13 ENG 1D Mr. Rostek Matte/page2/Soccer Soccer the Sport of Kicking Soccer is the world’s most popular sport‚ played by 250 million players in over 200 countries. The game is played on a rectangular grass field with a goal net at each end and has a simple objective of putting the spherical ball know as the soccer ball in the opposing net with any part of the body besides the hands and the arms. Soccer is a great sport

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    Imagine how you felt when you realized that your son and daughter were taking drugs just because they saw one of the athletes in the olympics doing it‚ what would you do? I know how I would feel and the answer is not happy at all. I don’t understand why athletes are taking drugs so that they can be able to win. It doesn’t make sense. This is telling us that you need drugs to be able to win in a competition. I find it very sad because there are young kids that look up to those big stars. Yes I know

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    Today’s athletes continue to push the boundaries of excellence in performance and physical fitness. Helping them are refined training methods and technologies. Never have athletes had more training aids at their disposal. Twenty years ago‚ drug testing in sport was in its beginning stages. Now‚ it is complex and in constant change. Keeping sport clean has become a never-ending race between drug testers and those who choose to cheat. And as much as the quest for the podium or championship should

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    Lameshia Banks Professor MWeaver English 1301-02 28 April 2014 Rhythmic Gymnastics Rhythmic Gymnastics is an Olympic sport that started out as an independent sport in the early 1950s by the Russians. Finally in 1984 Rhythmic Gymnastics were introduced into the Olympic Games‚ which were hosted by Los Angeles‚ CA. “It’s a complex artistic and aesthetic sport.” (Belia‚ Marta) It’s a very creative sport‚ which demands a specific training process that requires high levels of physical

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    Athens 2004 Greece’s Background Some three thousand years ago‚ the first Olympic games were held in Ancient Greece. Ancient Olympia was structured and designed to hold these games. The first games were held in honor of Zeus. Ancient Greece was one of the first civilizations‚ making huge contributions to Western Civilization. Today’s society is largely developed from Ancient Greece‚ considering they were the ones who first created a democracy for a government. Humanity run deep through Greece‚ and

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    civilisations used mushrooms and herbs to improve their performance. Later in the 19th century substances including alcohol‚ opium and caffeine were used. More recently a number of deaths and allegations of drug taking encouraged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to set up the medical commission in 1967‚ banning the use of drugs and other performance enhancing substances. However it wasn’t until 1990 did the IOC ban the majoritively used substances such as erythropoietin (EPO) and blood doping

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