Olympics

The Olympics bring so many countries’ best athletes and bring out the best out of them. They also show how capable humans are of doing some very challenging and radical things and take some mergers to get to where they want to get. The world is able to see all of these events go down every four years. By looking at the history of the summer Olympics we can learn not only why they are important, but also what makes them such a compelling research Project base on the athletes who participate like Larysa Latynina who was an exceptional gymnast. She overcame many challenges like very few do to get to record breaking titles. The summer Olympics first began in the year of 1896 in Greece. Pierre de Coubertin decided to organize the first summer Olympics in Greece because it was the birthplace of the Olympics. The exact location of the Olympics was at the Panathinaiko stadium which was the only Olympian stadium in existence during the 19th century. The cost of this event was 3740000 drachmas which is about $448,000 US. Coubertin organized a meeting with 79 delegates who voted for the restoration of the Olympics. The people of Athens had to organize the summer Olympics by having King George do the opening which was extremely important to this event. Women weren’t allowed to compete at the time but one woman named Stamata Revithi ran regardless of what the committee believed. Summer Olympics main goal was to promote physical education in participating countries because they wanted there people to be fit. Some problems that Olympic Games faced were political involvement because only the committee was allowed to decide on how the summer Olympics would be organized. Not even the athletes’ opinions were taken into consideration even though it was a bug to many still many athletes participated in this event. Through the decades Olympics have changed by athletes starting to use drugs during the 1900s to improve there ability to do better in their event. Also violence started in the 1900s as well eleven athletes were held hostage and two were actually killed. The 2012 summer game Olympics will be held in London, England. In the eastern part of London to be more specific. The city is preparing for this big event in various ways. There are many things that are going on. Two very important things that are in the Olympics Delivery Authority’s minds is to subsidize the never ending revitalization, and try to make sure the venues are able to be used even after the games. The big question many have is how much is all these parks and stadium going to cost. The Olympic park will be built in the lower lea Valley. It will cost approximately nine hundred seventeen million it includes thirty-three venues. The Olympic stadium will have twelve thousand seats and will cost four hundred fifty million. All this money where will it come from you ask. Well there will be a lottery that will cover over half of the expenses. Andrew Harland says the big project “will have a positive economic and social impact on the whole area.” Like every big event has it controversies and problems the 2012 Olympics is no exception. The Olympics logo has had a lot of negative critics. it is said that Ken Livingstone (mayor of London) “hates” the logo and that he “ wouldn’t pay a penny to live the images creator”, and there has been a petition signed by more than 35,000 UK residents. The upcoming Olympics are taking in many positive and negative but overall its in general more positive than negative.