The first ancient Greek Olympics record keeping started in 776 B.C. But there are many conclusions that the Olympics were held even sooner. Even though there were many sporting events, the Olympic Games were the most famous sporting events in ancient Greece, honoring the Greek gods. The event was held every four years in Olympia, Greece. The ancient Greeks believed that keeping their citizens strong and healthy would help strengthen the city-states.
The conception of the modern Olympic Games was entirely different compared to the ancient Olympics. There were four Baron’s principles that were far from a simple sports competition, to “adhere to an ideal of a higher life, to strive for perfection”; to represent an elite “whose origins are completely egalitarian” and at same time “chivalry” with its moral qualities; to create a truce “a four-yearly festival of the springtime of mankind”; and to glorify beauty by the “involvement of the philosophic arts in the Games” (Young [31-32]). In the first twenty years only Summer Olympics were held
They were banned in 394 AD but were revived and made international in 1896. The Winter Games were added in 1924. World War I and World War II forced cancellation of the Olympics in 1916, 1940 and 1944, but they resumed in 1948 and now they are held every four years. The founder of the modern Olympic games was Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who wanted to continue the tradition of people around the world meeting and competing in a civil manner (Ollie Williams, 2011). THE OLYMPICS AS AN EVENT The Olympics is a truly global mega event (Justin Goulding, 2011).
Despite the uprising of their country Hungary still competed, 108 competitors, 88 men and 20 women of Hungary, took part in 80 events in 12 sports. The springbok tour of Australia and New Zealand was in play and New Zealand also won its first ever international test victory, over the West Indies was giving a lot of entertainment to eager sporting fans. If sport wasn’t much to liking and you were more of international affairs gentlemen than events such as the royal solo visit of the duke of Edinburgh and United Nations secretary general dag Hammarskjold’s visit in February. As for the other side of the world, things were just as busy. Hungary’s people were revolting against the people’s republic of Hungary and its soviet imposed politics new Zealand accepted 1117 of the 200,000 refugees who had fled their country, the struggle for a new government lasted from the 23rd of October 1956 to the 10th of November 1956 ending with the government defeated to the guerrilla revolutionist.The Suez Crisis was a diplomatic and military confrontation on July the 26th1956 between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other, The attack followed the President
1996] Throughout the years, there were heaps of examples of ambush marketing in all kinds of from practiced in many sports events. One of the best known example: in 1994, American Express created advertisements claiming that Americans do not need "Visas" - an official sponsor of the Olympic Games, to travel to Norway for the Winter Olympics, such that Visa complained loudly to the incident. American Express said that the commercial advertisement was not referring to the Olympics and was not an attempt to ambush Visa. [ Jon Kelly (2010)] From that, we can see there is a serious danger to both the official sponsor and the event owners (e.g., Curthoys & Kendall, 2001; McKelvey & Grady, 2004) and an obvious growing number of companies are gaining attention from the audience by using the ambush
Athletic contests such as Pyrrhic dancing, physical fitness, the torch relay race, and boat races were restricted to Athenian citizens; however, non-Athenians were allowed to take part in the track and field and equestrian events. Allowing all citizens to participate in this particular festival meant that the Panathenaea became extremely important to Athenian society as it was a time when all sectors of the community united together in honouring their patron goddess, Athena. Athena supposedly protected the city; therefore Athenians would have considered her birthday an important and appropriate time to honour her. Each year a new peplos* was sewn for the life-size statue of Athena Polias by young girls chosen from noble Athenian families. It was rare for women to play a prominent role in festivals, however in the Panathenaea the peplos and the women who made it formed part of the procession; these women were respected and considered important on this day.
Ancient Olympic Games The Olympic games are not the same today as they were in Ancient Greece some two thousand years ago. The games can be traced back to 776 BC and took place in Greece. The Olympic games were closely linked to the festivals of Zeus. On the first day they had a festival of athletes. On the second day, there was a foot race and the main event took place in the stadium.
There are many dissimilarities between both eras. In the early Olympics the swimming events were held in an open sea and competitors did not know what obstacles they were going to face till they faced them. However ever since 1908 in the London Olympics the swimming event has been held in a 100m swimming pool. Another difference is that the early Olympics did not allow woman to participate in the swimming events . On the other hand in the modern Olympics today women are allowed to compete in all swimming events and this has been since 1912.
Do You Think That The Changes Brought to This East-End of London Will be Beneficial? Personally, I do think that the changes that the London 2012 Olympics have made to the area were beneficial, as the area used to be a slum, filled with travellers and below standard housing. The 2012 Olympics bought clean, high-quality housing and tourism to the area. The park was turned into an area, after the games, where families could go, and use the velodrome for cycling, or just walk through the vast area. Not all of this was good, though as all residents who used to live on the land were legally evicted, but were offered compensation and alternative housing.
Prior to the 2012 Olympics in London, three Muslim countries have never before sent a female athlete: Qatar, Brunei, and Saudi Arabia. However, they all bowed to IOC pressure and