Welcome back! I hope you had a great time over the winter holidays.
As you must know, the 2012 Olimpic Games are being held in Londo right now. In order to introduce the topic, I'd like you to watch this very short video about the history of the games:
I'd like you to focus on the connections between the different historical events/periods mentioned in the video, and how this had impact on the Olympics. Choose one of these, and explain it briefly in a comment below :)
the olimpics started in grek and then it stops, after some time french and british people wanted to bring back the olimpic games, so they did. When the war exploted the olimpic games were cancelled.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your answer, Guadalupe!
DeleteThe Olympic Games held in 1936 were in Germany, during the Nazi Government. Hitler tried to ban black and jewish athletes to play on the Games, plus he made them looked like a "big fascist party"; this was the first Games to have symbols like the torch (Hitler associate the Olympic symbols as a synonymous of power, I guess). But his plans got ruined because Jesse Owens, a black runner, won 4 gold medals.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Victoria :)
DeleteThe Olympic Games started in the ancient Greece but after some years they had to stop. Years passed and french British people want the games back and they so it. They introduced some new games and events. After some years the war came up so the Olympic games were suspended until the end of the war
ReplyDeleteThanks Malena, I'm glad to hear from you again :)
DeleteThe people in the 90´s and 00 saw far less boycotts and the games also proved economy bustingly expensive of late.
ReplyDeleteThat's very true. What do you think is meant by that phrase?
DeleteViolence was seen in the Olympics since its inception, although in ancient Greece, wars were brought to a halt during the games for the safety of the spectators and the athletes. The 1916 Olympics was cancelled due to the World War I and the 1940 Summer Olympics and the 1944 Winter Olympics were cancelled due to the World War II. After this war, it apperar the paralympics. A bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta killed two and injured one hundred and eleven people.
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DeleteThe Olympic games of 1916 were cancelled because of World War I, as they were scheduled to take place in Germany. In the Olympics of 1920, Germany and other countries were banned as they were blamed for starting the war.
ReplyDeletethanks, Paula
DeleteIn 1904 were introduce woman events in the olympics. This was very important and a very big change. Nowadays is very common and a lot of women are in the competition
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting! In fact this year, for the first time, Muslim women were able to compete as well!
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