Is it time we took the Olympics off the shelf? The Olympics is always a costly event‚ especially the London 2012 Games. The price was originally planned at £2.4 billion‚ but has progressed to £9.3 billion‚ soaring by an extra £6.9 billion. At the same time‚ the government is making cuts in health and education. If we were to put the Olympics in a time capsule‚ would of future generations be proud‚ knowing we spent £9.3 billion on stadiums‚ security and fancy ceremonies when there are still so many
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Bronzan 9/5/12 Is it Worth the Costs to Host the Summer Olympics? The Summer Olympic Games are some of the most prestigious‚ and most watched sporting events on the planet that are all mixed into one huge international event. With this prestige come the best athletes in the world‚ ranging from track and field and swimming‚ to table tennis and equestrian. All of these athletes come together every 4 years‚ to a city that is picked by the International Olympic Committee. To host all of the best athletes
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Discuss the effect drugs have had on Modern International Sports Events such as the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games Due to the high standards‚ professionalism and interest in high profile sporting events such as the Olympics‚ the Commonwealth games and Tour De France‚ some participants would take great risks‚ both legal and illegal to try and win the event‚ without knowing the consequences and side-effects of these risks. For example‚ some of the athletes taking part in these events went as
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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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The Olympic Games first started at Olympia in Greece in 776 BC. At that time‚ the games held were organized into festivals. There was a peace agreement called the scared truce between the city-states of Elis and Pisa. The reasons for hosting the Olympic Games at that time fall into three obvious aspects —— the honour of competing‚ the opportunity for trade and also‚ for peace. The reason why cities bid to hold the Olympics now are more complicated than in ancient time. But the main reasons remain
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Should the Olympics have a permanent home? Today the modern Olympics consist of summer and winter games although the ancient Olympic games were only a series of competitions restricted to a few games and a few people. The Olympics symbolize with five intertwined circles representing all five continents of the earth‚ giving the meaning that the games are opened to the whole world. Olympics is a major international event which gives the thousands of athletes the opportunity to participate in variety
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Economic Impacts of Beijing Olympic Bird Nest and Water Cube: We can all recall the opening of Beijing Olympic in Bird Nest where the gorgeous fireworks and fantastic shows were shown. As well as the Water Cube‚ an exquisite designed water stadium‚ which all the water competitions were hosted. After the 2008 Beijing Olympic‚ those multibillions infrastructures were put into use only a few times and for most of the time‚ they were empty. Some people believe the construction of those infrastructures
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You may have heard of Halet Cambel‚ who was the first Muslim woman to compete in the Olympics‚ an archeologist by day and fencer by night from‚ hailing from Turkey. Cambel’s bravery and strength led the way for athletes such as Sarah Attar and Wojdan Seraj Abdulrahim‚ who made history in 2012 on behalf of the notoriously misogynistic Saudi Arabia‚ by being their first female representatives at the Olympics. But somewhere between Cambel and the two lady Olympians representing Saudi Arabia today we
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Meghan Strong Mrs. Wamsganz English 21 May 2013 Special Olympics Would you say people with disablilities are less fortunate? Would you say they aren’t capable of things that an everyday person are? No‚ it’s not that they are less fortunate or uncapable‚ but are carriers of unique gifts and talents. The Special Olympics started off only as a summer camp for those with intellectual disabilities. The camp was created to test and discover the phyical and mental abilities of these special
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The early Olympic Games were celebrated as a religious festival from 776 B.C. until 393 A.D.‚ when the games were banned for being a pagan festival (the Olympics celebrated the Greek god Zeus). In 1894‚ a French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin‚ proposed a revival of the ancient tradition‚ and thus the modern-day Olympic Summer Games were born. Host Greece won the most medals (47) at the first Olympic Summer Games in 1896. The United States has won more medals (2‚189) at the Summer Games than
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