The Impact of the Olympic Games on its Host City

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The Impact of the Olympic Games on its Host City

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Introduction

The pages of human history daubed in bloodshed due to violence and atrocities on issues related to wars , ethnic conflicts , racial confrontations , religious flare-ups , etc ask the crying question . How to make this Planet earth heaven-like ? The answer is simple and direct Eyes full of understanding , hearts full of love and the life that refuses conflicts-enough-these alone are enough ! Pierre Frydy , Baron de Coubertin

, born in Paris in 1863 , thought on these lines , and wished to do something that would benefit the humanity for all time to come . He rightly concluded that it was sports and he was absolutely right Coubertin was a very active sportsman and practiced the sports of boxing , fencing , horse-riding and rowing . He was convinced that sport was the springboard for moral energy and he defended his idea with rare tenacity . It was this conviction that led him to announce at the age of 31 that he wanted to revive the Olympic Games (Olympic ) What is that unique global activity that has the intrinsic capacity to bring common understanding and motivational joy between different nationalities of the world ? The answer is Olympic Games . For more information and study , visit any of the cities that has hosted the Olympic Games in the past , or the city that is going to host the 2008 Olympics-Beijing

Review of Literature

1 . Competition replaced confrontation and the colorful Olympic Rings took the centre stage "These five rings -- blue , yellow , black , green and red -- represent the five parts of the world now encompassed by Olympism and ready to compete against each other . Moreover , the six colors (including the white background ) thus combined represent those of all nations , without exception . The blue and yellow of Sweden , the blue and white of Greece , the French , English , American , German , Belgian Italian and Hungarian tricolors , the yellow and red of Spain are side by side with the new Brazilian and Australian flags , the old Japan and the new China . It is a true international emblem (Coubertin ) In July 2001 , the International Olympic Committee chose Being as the host city for the 2008 games . The impact of this announcement was immediate on the host Nation and the city . Calls for boycott of the games began to reverberate from many corners of the world . The reasons for the boycott are manifold . And these are not the causes that are missing when it comes to China . Repression against activists of human rights imprisonment of journalists and lawyers , almost routine recourse to the death penalty and "re-education through labor " censorship of the Internet and media , critics of the government Chinese has an embarrassment of riches (Campeau

2 . What changes are anticipated and what impact will be experienced in the host city Beijing , as preparations have almost been completed for the event from August 8 to 24th ? The most visible scenario is the security...