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Olympic Games | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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  • The original Olympics featured competition in music, oratory, and theater performances as well.
  • The earliest reliable date that recorded history gives for the first Olympics is 776 B.C.
  • The modern Games have a more expansive athletic agenda, and for 2 ½ weeks they are supposed to replace the rancor of international conflict with friendly competition. In recent times, however, that lofty ideal has not always been attained.
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  • all wars would cease during the contests
  • a footrace of about 183 m (200 yd), or the length of the stadium. A cook, Coroibus of Elis, was the first recorded winner.
  • The growth of the Games fostered "professionalism" among the competitors
  • June 16, 1894. With delegates from Belgium, England, France, Greece, Italy, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the United States in attendance, he advocated the revival of the Olympic Games.
  • Greece was the appropriate country to host the first modern Olympics.
  • The council did agree that the Olympics would move every 4 years to other great cities of the world.
  • Beginning in 1924 a Winter Olympics was included
  • whose headquarters is in Lausanne, Switzerland
  • International Olympic Committee (IOC)
  • Athletic nationalism was brought to a peak by Nazi Germany, which staged the 1936 Games in Berlin and used the Olympics to propagandize its cause
  • The Germans built a powerful team through nationalized training and scientific advances and dominated the Games in terms of medals won.
  • The biggest influence on the modern Olympic Games is money. Commercialism exists side by side with the outstanding athleticism and the spirit of friendship imbuing competitors from around the world.
  • tremendous potential for profit
  • Originally, Olympic athletes were expected to remain strictly amateurs and not earn money even for endorsing products
  • Athletes, too, especially in the "glamour sports" such as gymnastics, ice skating, or track and field, can reap tremendous financial gains for winning performances, through product endorsements and personal appearances
  • holding of a full-time job
  • Winning medals at the Olympic Games has always been considered the most prestigious mark of an athlete, and a source of glory for the athlete's country
  • testing of athletes for drug use began for the Olympics in 1968
  • were convicted of systematic and overall doping
  • As drug testing procedures have improved, more athletes have been caught
  • The IOC formed the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in late 1999 to test athletes at the upcoming Olympics and to increase drug testing standards, but how effective WADA will be in the long run is not yet known.
  • , it has become clear that a city hosting the Games can anticipate a financial windfall, as spectators and sponsors converge for the event.
  • He found ready and unanimous support from the nine countries. De Coubertin had initially planned to hold the Olympic Games in France, but the representatives convinced him that
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London Olympics Coverage Is Making NBC Way More Money Than They Hoped For - Business In... - 0 views

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  • Through five days of events, ratings are some 30 percent higher than what NBC had privately predicted, said NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke.
  • NBC can sell more commercial time than anticipated and charge higher prices for it.
  • 38.7 million people tuned in Tuesday night, when Americans could have easily learned by dinnertime that the country's women's gymnastics team won a gold medal that day and swimmer Michael Phelps set a record for career medals earned
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  • social media played a big role in drumming up interest in the Olympics
  • Fans converse through Facebook and Twitter, and it drives people to the television set,
  • The company's prediction that it would lose some $200 million was based on the expense of doing business in London and its experience with the Vancouver winter games two years ago, the first Olympics that NBC has telecast that lost money.
  • NBCUniversal will likely earn more money through ad sales at its affiliates and in the digital space, Crupi said.
  • urke said the pre-sales of advertising earned the company some $100 million more than anticipated.
  • Comcast said on Wednesday that its net income rose 32 percent to $1.35 billion during the April-to-June period
  • The Olympics run through Aug. 12. Ratings tend to go down after gymnastics and swimming competitions end.
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London Olympics 2012: where does the money come from - and where's it being spent? | Sp... - 0 views

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  • The single biggest item of spending has been preparing the Olympic park: at £1.822bn, it includes the local infrastructure, roads, cleaning up the site and powerlines• That's followed by the venues, which cost £1.106bn, and the most expensive is the Olympic stadium at £428m
  • The cheapest venue is the basketball arena
  • TOTAL     11.3
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  • Total non-ODA public funding Central gov funding   2.54
  • Other Locog funding from central gov Central gov funding Locog 0.18
  • TOTAL PUBLIC SECTOR FUNDING TOTAL   9.3
  • Funding from the International Olympic Committee     0.7
  • Sponsorship TOTAL Locog 0.7
  • Ticket sales Ticket sales Locog 0.6
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  • Born in Southern Sudan, Lomong was abducted and taken from his parents at age six and forced to join the militia by rebels. He nearly died in captivity as one of the "Lost Boys" of Sudan but fled after several years and eventually moved to the United States.
  • nspired by Michael Johnson at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Lomong decided to take up running, and after 12 years he is now through to an Olympic final in London.
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