to ever compete at the Olympic Games. During these games he wasn’t the biggest and fastest but he soon would become the best. Barra says “He didn’t win any medals at these games but he became a huge threat” (Barra). Lots of people don’t have this kind of experience like Phelps‚ but without this experience he wouldn’t know how to compete at this level later on in life. After high school swimming Phelps moved on to go to the University of Michigan while training for the Olympics. Lamm wrote “While at
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When Barcelona was selected to host the 1992 Summer Olympics‚ the city (as well as Catalonia and España as a whole) welcomed the incredible opportunity. In addition to the obvious nationalist pride and international recognition hosting the games entails‚ their excitement was also fueled by the potential that the opportunity represented. As the International Olympic Committee explains in their “Factsheet – Legacies of the Games‚” recent Olympic games have resulted in “long lasting legacies for their
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Discontinued Olympic Sports All questions True or False. 1. In the Underwater Swimming at the Paris Olympics of 1900‚ with 2 points for every meter swum‚ and 1 point for every second underwater‚ the 3rd place getter remained submerged for 30 seconds longer than the winner but lost on distance because he swam in a circle. 2. The French cricket team in the same 1900 Paris Olympics consisted mainly of British Embassy staff on a day off. 3. Cricket remained a popular Olympics sport into the 1930’s
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Jerome’s main sport was track and field he also interested in sports such as baseball and football‚ but he always excelled in speed. Both Jerome’s grandfather‚ John Howard‚ and his sister Valerie Jerome completed in the Olympics. Jerome competed in 1960‚ 1964 and 1968 summer Olympics; he won a gold medal in the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games and the 1967 Pan American games. Harry‚ at age eighteen broke the record for 220 yard sprint‚ which was held before by Percy Williams. Jerome was
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5/12/13 BBC News - India’s Olympic performance INDIA 13 August 2012 Last updated at 06:48 ET India’s Olympic performance India’s haul of six medals‚ including two silver and four bronze‚ is the country’s best performance to date at the Olympic games. Sports writer V Krishnaswamy looks into the future for team India and how to build on this success. The world it seems has taken the escalator‚ but Indians are still using the staircase. From 1996 to 2004‚ it was one at a time‚ then it be
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OLYMPICS The Olympics are a huge sporting event that contains many different sports and consists of many different countries from around the world.Back in ancient Greece is where the ancient Olympics originated. From 776 BC‚ the traditional games took place at Olympia every 4 years for almost 12 centuries until 1896. The first modern Olympic games took place in Athens Greece in 1896 and the games played to today every 4 years.Today‚olympic games worlds biggest athletic and competitive event that
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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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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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History of the Olympics The Olympic Games originated long ago in ancient Greece. Exactly when the Games were first held and what circumstances led to their creation is uncertain. We do know‚ however‚ that the Games were a direct outgrowth of the values and beliefs of Greek society. The Greeks idealized physical fitness and mental discipline‚ and they believed that excellence in those areas honored Zeus‚ the greatest of all their gods. One legend about the origin of the Olympic Games revolves around
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The United States Olympic Committee (USOC)‚ initially named the American Olympic Association‚ was formed in 1896. Members of the committee sought to provide assistance to United States Olympic athletes with training and other needs. As the USOC is not government funded the committee has relied heavily on corporate funding and private donations (“Team USA‚” 2011). However‚ over the years while the continued appeal of the Olympic Games remained‚ the increased cost of housing‚ clothing‚ and caring for
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