The Olympics have been happening for hundreds of years. They are a time where countries come together in order to show their physical accomplishments and compete. Because the Olympics are such a worldwide event the preparations are huge and take a long time. The committee has decided that hosting the Olympics in our city would not be beneficial. The committee has come to this conclusion firstly because of the massive expenses. To host the Olympics the city would have to build multiple facilities for the games, renovate and expand hotels and lodges, and fix our streets. According to this quote we are almost certainly going to run over our budget to make these things happen. “[T]he University of Oxford found that the cost of Olympic Games overrun with 100 percent consistency. According to the same study, the cost of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games ran over by 60 percent; the Albertville, France, 1992 Olympic Winter Games ran over 135 percent; and the Lake Placid, New York, 1932 Olympic Winter Games ran over by 320 percent” (7 Ways). With so little of a town we do not have enough money to make these changes. They could put us into a massive debt and stunt the city’s growth. …show more content…
Our city is relatively small and consists mostly of housing for our residents. A common way to get space for the Olympics is to evict the residents. “An outcry over human rights also resulted from the 2008 Games, as 5 million Beijing residents were evicted from their homes to create space for Olympic infrastructures” (Social and Culture). The city would need to evict a majority of our residents and that would not prove beneficial to our city in the long term because the Olympics only last so long but the city’s residents need a place to live for a lifetime. So evicting so many people would hurt us in the long run even if the Olympics brought the city a lot of
First of all, I know this issue can be resolved as I have seen it done with my own eyes. Just recently the Hot and Now restaurant which has been abandoned for years was turned into a Checkers. However, it took a long time for these changes to occur and there is no reason for it to be that slow again when deciding what to do about the buildings in question. These abandoned buildings can be redone and give new life to the city of Battle Creek like the opening of new restaurants, stores etc. are ways the run down building can be utilized. Also, if the buildings were redone it can open up new experiences for the people living in Battle Creek.
Today we owe one of the largest global social gatherings to the Greeks, the Olympic games. The Olympic games were held every four years in Olympia, Greece. Today “the Olympic games are held every four years, with the summer and the Winter Games alternating by occurring every four years but two years apart.” Just like the Ancient Olympic games, today’s Olympics are designed to be a time of peace in which all nations can come together to compete in different sports.
For the hosting country the games brought viewers from around the world. Document 6 imposed that, hosting the games was a sign of prestige. Although source 6 was biased in promoting Soviet values and view, he did exemplify the national pride that hosting the Olympics brought. This respect motivated many countries to join the games. Document 1 shows how Europeans wanted to bring the Olympics to Europe in order to facilitate peace and improve international standings. An interesting document that would provide some perspective would be a speech of a person who opposed bringing the Olympics to Europe, or any country. Even sponsoring, not necessarily hosting, the Olympics brought high profits and these high profits instituted a hot bid for these rights as shown by Document 7. The increased competition for sponsoring drove the Olympics to success and higher prestige. Overall the games reflected only the best in countries, and this standard reflected on the country's national pride. Document 10 shows how even struggling countries in the Olympics wanted to be shown better. That pressure only continued to improve the success of the
Therefore, today I am going to persuade you as to why they should keep the Summer Olympics in Rio. First off, health inspectors are eliminating bodies of water where mosquitoes trying to reproduce could be found (LaGrave). Brazil has also stated they will clean up Rio?s body of water where athletes will be competing. There have been rumors about moving the water games during the Olympics further out into the ocean where the water will be cleaner (Khazan). Hosting the Olympics will cost Brazil more than $13 billion (La Grave).
The Olympic Games have been held every four years since 1896. Three times, the games were not held because of a world war. There were no games in 1916, 1940, and 1944. The first competition in modern times was held in Athens, but not all of the games have been held there. The Olympic Games are held in many different cities around the world. The 2008 Olympic will be held in Beijing, China.
The Olympics are supposed to be a time of peace and a time where countries could come together and be free from politics. The Olympics are also a time where nations should put away their differences and celebrate the reason why they came to participate in the games, which was to play sports. Throughout history, many of the Olympics have lived up to this expectation. At the same time, there have also been some Olympics that have not lived up to this expectation because they have been experienced boycotts, political protests, and even violence. The politics in the Olympics need to be kept out because it there is no place for it. The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow is an example of one Olympics that was not free from politics because of the boycott started by the U.S.
After the Holocaust the Olympics were not the same anymore. Britain had put themselves to host the Olympics. By that time they could choose who they wanted to host, but were not allowed to do that before and after the Holocaust. In July 26 1948 to August 14 1948 the host took place in London and in Great Britain. Britain was allowed to compete, many countries sent athletes to compete, but a lot of other countries weren’t. Japan nor Germany were allowed. The USSR wouldn’t send athletes to compete since 1922 and still didn’t until
In order to host the event Atlanta had to make sure it had all the facilities to be able to provide athletes places both to practice and perform. Although the city had fairly adequate facilities already, there were improvements that needed to be made. By making sure facilities were up to scratch for the athletes, they were also improving facilities for citizens, because ultimately once the Olympics were over, these new and improved facilities would still be there.
Holding the Olympics is not easy; Utah figured that out in 2002. The first problem they ran into was seating for spectators. The Olympic Committee turned to the University of Utah. They were going to use their stadium but it only had 32,000 seats when they needed 50,000 chairs. The university got to work and added about 18,000 seats. Then the committee realized that the athletes needed a place to stay. Again the University of Utah built all new dorms for the athlete’s village. Those are only 2 of the many problems Utah overcame to host a fantastic Olympics!
With over two hundred countries participating, the Olympic Games is easily considered as one of the largest multisport event known to history. The Olympics are held at a different country, and even more rarely at the same city. For a country to be chosen to host the Olympics, the country’s National Olympic Committee (the country’s representatives for the Olympics) nominates a city (from the country they represent) that they think has potential in hosting the Olympics nine years prior to when they wish to host the Olympics. It is a two year process that consists of: Application Phase, Candidate Phase and the Election of the Host City. The country that wins the election is given seven years to prepare for the Olympics. (International Olympic Committee, n.d., p. xx-xx) The hosting country expends billions of dollars, usually money they don’t have, preparing for the Olympics. Then the question is raised 'why would a country go through so much trouble and spend an outrageous amount of money to host this event?' Throughout this discussion paper it will address all the pros and cons for a country to host the Olympics. It will also see if a smaller sports event can produce the same benefits the Olympic offers with less cost and risk.
Germany managed to retain their award and host the Games amidst the controversies. Even after the issues encountered during the 1936 Olympics, the Olympics Committee decided to award Germany another chance to host the games in 1940. Fortunately, Germany pulled out and the Games were cancelled.
We are able to see that hosting the Olympics plays an important role in the development of a country. Despite having a number of valid reasons to oppose the hosting of Olympics, we are able to reap more long-term benefits. Rebranding the country to make it outstanding enough to attract tourist and boost tourism head on. For this reason, it brings in more income for the country and creates more job opportunities in the tourism sector. This would indirectly create job chances in industrial sector. Unemployment rate goes down significantly which are able to attract more people towards the country. Citizens will be more patriotic and not wanting to leave the country. There is so much potential for a country to improve themselves, with all being said, I couldn’t disagree with hosting the
Many people would question if the cost of the Olympics is worth it. Billions of dollars are used to make the Olympics what it is, and a lot of money is spent on manufacturing medals, and building arenas for the sports events. The arenas also require lots of money to maintain during the Olympics, as well as afterwards if they are to be recycled as sporting event centres. Housing for the athletes also takes quite a few million to create, even though they are only used for athlete housing for a couple of weeks. So much money was put into things like accommodation, but there were many complaints from everyone residing there that most parts of the building were incomplete or malfunctioning. The 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi’s original budget was twelv...
Firstly, being the host of a major sporting event such as the Olympics could actually benefit the hosting countries’ economic and cultural benefits of the Olympics. The Olympics have a very wide reach in this modern day with. This is a plus especially with the existence of today’s social media and the Internet. In the economic side, it could actually be a very powerful marketing and publishing tool for the host country. With all the present technology that is available nowadays, it actually is a good way to promote a certain country to the world. This eventually increase the economic level of the country that is hosting it, as they will receive visitors from all over the world and they will eventually spend their money to the host countries, thus improving their economics. Winbey (2014) states that the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics are somet...
Looking to the future, Rio 2016 Olympic Games will hold after two years, but some of the venues have not yet begun construction, infrastructure delays. One of the vice president of the IOC John Coates, feel dissatisfied about this, and also claimed this is "the worst" he has ever seen. Few days later, there are rumor that the Olympic Games will change to hold in London by Plan B. The IOC then denies this rumor.