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    The Olympics in today’s culture is a very important and well known event. The first Olympic games were held in the year 776 B.C. The Olympics games started in Greece and over time it became more widely spread and competitive and started to become more important to athletes. Although Athletes from all over the world show up to compete at the Olympic games now‚ it was much more simpler and had a different purpose in the first wave civilizations. The Olympic games were created to show physical qualities

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    world-wide sponsors are Coca-Cola‚ Samsung‚ Apple‚ Intel‚ and Visa.The sponsors for the 2026 Winter Olympics are Vanguard‚ Next‚ Ebay‚ and Butagaz. BUDGET: Our games will cost around 7 billion factoring the venues‚ security and other aspects and components. Norway’s GDP and GDP per capita are 370.6 billion USD and 70‚812.48 USD which proves that this country is fully capable of holding these olympics and are capable of funding them too. 2.3 billion dollars of the cost will be funded by taxpayers.

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    very first Olympic Games... You’re also naked. Seems weird right? In light of the recent Winter Olympics I thought it would be fun to research how different it was from the first games. So today I thought I would share with you all the history‚ athletes‚ and events from the early Olympic Games.  According to historical records‚ the first ancient Olympic Games can be traced back to 776 BC. They were dedicated to the Olympian gods and were held in ancient Olympia. The official Olympic website states

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    The Sydney Olympic Games held in 2000 was perhaps one of Australia’s major investments. The event involved Private‚ Social and External costs and benefits. The NSW government experienced the Private costs. Financially‚ the government spent around $1.7 billion dollars on the event‚ which included the sporting facilities‚ advancing the city’s streets‚ transport organisation and the village. The takings received for the event‚ however‚ was around $6 million. The profits are still being made today‚

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    The Olympics

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    Impacts of Beijing 2008 An appraisal of the impact of the Beijing Olympics presented by Lee Sands considered that‚ ‘the huge inflows of investment to support the Olympics and recreate Beijing have had an important ripple effect on economic growth’. To prepare for the games‚ China invested nearly $40 billion in infrastructure alone from 2002 to 2006‚ transformed the cityscape of Beijing. Furthermore‚ the Olympics have had a significant influence on Beijing’s economic development‚ environment‚ and

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    The Olympics has always been a memorable sporting event to be a part of‚ whether you’re an athlete or a spectator. For those who are not familiar with the event‚ the Olympics is an event where multiple sports are played out by thousands of athletes from around the world of at least 200 countries. The event is held every 4 years in the summer. Today‚ the Olympics has expanded into various events for everyone to adapt such as from creating the winter games for winter games to the Paralympic games for

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    Compeitors in Olympics

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    Competitors in the Olympics are known to be strong‚ fearless‚ indestructible and passionate for the Olympics and the sport that they are competing against. The Olympics consist of a variety of sports that require competitors to be physically active but what these sports don’t do is improve health or memory. A sport that is proven to improve health and memory‚ but not in the Olympics is thumb wrestling. If competitors were as passionate for this sport like their own sport the world will have more

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    Gaming to Olympics

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    simple game such as Tetris or the ever so popular Candy Crush. Nearly everyone participates to some degree of video gaming. Gaming now‚ believe it or not is considered as an actual professional sport. Hell‚ Gaming on a computer could mean earning a medal in the Olympics in the near future! Congrats guys‚ the world is slowly turning into a utopia for dweebies‚ geeks and noobs. Regardless of how you feel about gaming‚ it unfortunately has become a social activity as common as a pick-up game of basketball

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    Should We Keep Olympics

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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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    Olympic Strengths

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    Routed China with a 105-62 victory in the ongoing women’s basketball tournament at the 2016 Rio Games on Sunday evening to advance to the quarterfinal unchallenged and unbeaten. According to NBC Connecticut‚ 2012 WNBA MVP Tina Charles poured in 12 of her 18 points in the opening quarter‚ and the Americans easily wrapped up the national team’s 46th consecutive victory its quest for a sixth straight Olympic gold medal. The New York Liberty star player outscored the Tom Maher-headed basketball squad by

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