2004 Summer Olympics

America’s Golden Girl Imagine taking one step into a chlorine-filled arena. The humid air rushes onto your skin. An immense smile spreads across your face. This is because you know everything is about to change. In less than 24 hours you will be holding a glistening gold medal in your hand, standing up on the podium while the Star Spangled Banner blares for the whole world to hear and tears will stream down your face. Taking one look back at your coach, Teri McKeever, you realize if it wasn’t for

of the summer and winter Olympics. Those millions of people cheer mostly for their country and wear their favorite athlete’s jersey. They plan parties for their favorite events and make memories with every game. With all the hustle and bustle, people don’t stop to think about how the Olympics affect the town, city, state, and even world around it. How does it benefit? What does it cause? What does it leave behind? Who does it impact? So many questions can be thought up about how the Olympics impact

competence in hosting, playing, and managing sport. South Korean athletes have created notable results at major international sport events. For example, since 1984, the national Summer Olympic team has unfailingly been ranked in the top 10 nations on the medal table, with the only exception being the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. The country has also produced a number of major world sporting events, including hosting

been interested in playing and watching sports. My favorite thing to do is watch the Olympics whether it is the Summer or Winter Olympics. On September 5th, 1997, the day after I was born, the decision to where the 2004 Summer Olympics was chosen. Athens, Greece would be the set location. Choosing

economic standpoint is a country deciding to host the Olympic games. Host cities of the Olympics often promise that they can gain capital from tourism, attracting new investment from foreign entities, increased trade, and returns on investment in infrastructure. Many countries have seen considerable success in gaining back the money invested into their Olympic games. Salt Lake City’s 2002 Olympics, Beijing’s 2008 Olympics, and London’s 2012 Olympics are all events that stimulated economic

Male Athlete. 9 Olympic gold medals,4 medals from the CARIFTA Game, 20 medals overall from world championships and the olympics. In 2010 Usain Bolt received the Millyet sports award. Also he has received BBC overseas sports personality of the year in 2008,2009.2012. He holds the 100m,200m, 4x100 olympic records and he finished with a 100% olympic win record. First and foremost, Usain Bolt won his first medal in a high school championship he was in. In the 2002 junior world olympics Bolt won the gold

of humanity. Swimming is one of the sports that are present in the Olympics Games, which is the largest and most relevant competition where countries from all over the world send their athletes to compete against each other and win medals for their victories. Until today, no one was able to get more medals in any modality than an American swimmer called Michael Phelps, who is still competing and will participate in the next Olympics Games to take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Phelps holds the highest

Kerri Walsh was born into a very sports related family. She was born on August 15, 1978 in Santa Clara, California. She is the second of four children. Her older brother is Marte and her two younger sisters are Kelli and KC. Her parents are the ones who had gotten her into sports. Her mom, Margery Lee, was a two time most valuable player in volleyball at Santa Clara University and her father, Tim J. Walsh, played for a minor baseball league called Boise A’s. She attended three schools through her

large amount of relevant material available regarding the short term economic impacts of hosting the Olympic Games. There is however very little literature written on the post-games era and the economic development it brings to a nation. The economic impact of staging an Olympic Games can be hard to measure accurately. A number of studies exist that illustrate the economic impact of hosting the Olympic Games, often predicting large economic benefits. Humphreys and Plummer (1995), state that the short

of Hosting Olympic Games The Olympic Games is one of the biggest and most unrivaled sporting events in the entire world. At first it may seem like a huge plus or advantage for a city or nation to host this event. However on the contrary there are a lot of negative aspects that occur when a nation hosts this event. While the event is taking place, from the outside it looks like a state of the art, prestigious event that it is. Some of the problems that are caused by hosting Olympic games deal