Social Impacts Of Hosting The Olympic Games

The Olympics have shown over the decades that they can be affected by political conflict. However, it seems that this is the point of the Olympics, to illustrate national pride, by competition. Bloodshed should not be the way for pride of one’s country to be shown, but it should be shown through competition, in the words of the founder of the modern Olympic movement, Pierre de

The most popular way that the Olympics we're able to give nations an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities was through competition and to demonstrate who was the best. True, these competitions are supposed to be through friendly competition, it was also a way for countries to show their national prowess through orchestration of impressive events and through a nation's triumph with their nations athletes. Naturally, these competitions became very intense through times of war such as the events before World War II. In regards to orchestration of these events many countries and even cities, like Los Angeles, went above and beyond to make the event special and as engaging is possible spending millions of dollars for things such as facilities,

In the 2016 Rio Olympics, 3.6 billion people watched at least one moment of the sixteen day event. (Appelbaum) That is incredible to think about but it is also stunning to dig deeper than to just hear the positive numbers that they broadcast on the news. Does the Olympics make a positive impact in the world? With the debt that the host cities encounter after the games are over, The International Olympic Committee (IOC) struggles to choose an economically stable city, and the horrific aftermath of the Olympics in the host city, the Olympics should have a rotation process between five different host cities or the Olympics should be eliminated.

Since the second half of the twentieth century, the extreme magnitude of the Games has made them a tool for economic development and social regeneration. This comes with a gigantic price tag for infrastructure, security etcetera, leaving host countries with large debts and maintenance liabilities.

Moving The Olympics is also important because fans from all over the world show can off their national pride. London 2012 Survey shows Games has boosted national pride and Britain's national pride has soared thanks to The Olympics. In one example, The Olympics were held in Melbourne, Australia. Back then, the rest of the world did not know much about Australia. Holding the Summer Games there made the rest of the world more excited to watch them.

With five interlocking rings as the logo, the Olympics have always brought the world together. From all around the world, the human race has produced the best worldwide athletes, generally all within the same range of talent. Attending the Olympics is often coveted and on the bucket list of the majority of the human race, attracting major attention to whichever country may be hosting; whether this is an honor or a burden is debatable. Immense facilities and extravagant structures are built, often adding to the spirit of the Olympics. However, these structures do not appear out of thin air; they tend to be excessively costly, enough to possibly harm the economy of any LDC (Less-Developed Country). After the craze of the 2016 Summer Olympics

Throughout the years, major events such as the Olympic games have shaped our history, establishing global tradition and unity. The games serve as a gathering for hundreds of competing nations, with each country showcasing their best athletes. However, the games were not always how they are today and have changed dramatically throughout the years.

A mega-event can serve as a unique opportunity to form a host-state’s vision of itself. It allows a government to essentially form an identity around the representation of the host-state within the mega-event. The Olympics can particularly serve to achieve this objective as they maintain an elaborate and extravagant spectacle of the Opening Ceremony. It means that an Olympic games can be a state’s effective tool of an official festivity. The Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin

Running Head: The Increasing Costs of Olympics and The primary driving force for hosting the famed Olympic Games has always hinged on the economic impact. Ideally, the cause factor has been that the running process determines the beneficial outcome in play. According to Baade and Matheson (n.d), the prevailing perception is that a well-organized and properly run Olympics is expected to generate billions of dollars in profit. The economic incentives and other motivations such as political prestige have seen nations compete intensively for the hosting chance. The misconceptions from the economic value have seen a lot of compromise by the standards of the bidding process with significant occurrence of wrong behaviors. Due to the growing in discrepancies arising from the quest to host these games, questions on whether the Olympics are worth the extraordinary investment in praise of it. This paper purposes to evaluate the increasing cost of Olympics and the decreasing interests by countries in hosting the famed games.

It has been witnessed that Olympic games has brought a great deal of economic, social, cultural, environmental and political changes to the host country. From the perspective of economics, Olympic games can overall positively contribute the host country in its economic growth, urban expandation, employment opportunities, households’ welfare improvement, etc. For example, Korea and Japan have comparatively experienced dramatic GDP growth after Olympics in Seoul in 1988 and Tokyo in 1964 with rates of 16.8% and 15.8%, respectively. In addition, developed countries like Spain that host Olympic games in Barcelona in 1992 gained much domestic consumption with 11.1% growth rate, even thought the average employment growth in Spain kept flat, which is mostly due to the economic recession in Europe at that time that has significantly offset the economic benefits from Barcelona having Olympic games (Vegara, 1992). In theory, the net changes (positive changes minus negative changes) from new economics activities in related to an event is defined as “Economic Impact” (Foster, Greyser & Walsh, 2006). In 2001, China was renowned for holding 2008 Olympic games in Beijing. This event has economically brought a considerable of positive impacts in vary aspects such as domestic demand improvement, employment rise, and so forth. However, 2008 Olympic games in Beijing also contains negative economic impact, such as the expenses on bidding for hosting Olympic games (Shipway &

<b>Introduction</b><br>Today, the Olympic Games are the world's largest pageant of athletic skill and competitive spirit. They are also displays of nationalism, commerce and politics. Well-known throughout the world the games have been used to promote understanding and friendship among nations, but have also been a hotbed of political disputes and boycotts. The Olympic games started thousands of years ago and lasted over a millennium.. The symbolic power of the Games lived on after their demise, and came to life again as the modern Olympic Games being revived in the last century. Both the modern and Ancient Olympics have close similarities in there purpose and in there problems. <br><br><b>Ancient Olympics</b><br>The ancient Olympics had

This idea of local versus global has shaped the Olympic Games. Anna Tsing, author of “The Global Situation,” discusses the idea that the global and local do not stop at a physical place. (Tsing 2000:77). It cannot stop at the physical; if so, then there would be no distinction between global and local. As can be seen with the Olympics. The Olympic Games are globalized, so many different cultures are brought to one city for two weeks every four years. However, the host city localizes the Games for those two weeks. For example, the opening ceremony is always about the host city. Rio’s opening ceremony highlighted the effects of global warming and the deterioration of the ozone

This seems like a bad thing, it is but it brings more attention and makes the games not blank having emotions. Lastly the Olympics have basic things that we take for granted like women’s rights of the Olympics or the spectators, or how the Olympics actually appear on our television.

Winning the bid to host the Olympics is no easy feat. But, hosting it and all the effects of that come with it can be complete and utter destruction to the people, their spirits and their economy. Thousands of tourist empty their pockets every four years – Rio De Janeiro has some high ceilings; but, higher expectations. The thing with the Olympics is you must have to infrastructure to handle it. Which in most cases the countries don’t and this is especially true in Rio’s case.

Every city that has hosted an Olympics, Commonwealth Games or World Cup event has seen some social unrest about the negative impact of the event on local people. Choose a recent Games-event host city and research the debate about the impact of that event on the city and its people. Critically discuss, i relation to relevant literature, the negative impacts the Games events have on a city and what gives rise to these impaction the basis of evidence that you have gathered and the literature on social struggles against games events, comment on whether you think local opposition to these events is warranted.