International Factors
- Created by: Emily Cheetham
- Created on: 07-06-13 09:43
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- International Factors
- What are they?
- World Championships, Common Wealth Games, Olympics, Wimbolden, Superbowl, Champion League, World Cups, Opens, Tour de France.
- Why we have them
- Opportunity to travel, brings people together, inspire a generation and increases participation, draws attension, creates a home advantage to countries
- Hosting
- Advantages
- Olympic villages open for cheap housing
- brings tourism to their country
- regeneration of run down area which creates jobs (all types)_
- World Class facilities created- based sporting camps eg. universites were enhanced.
- a legancy of facilities for everybodies use
- Disadvantages
- putting country into debt by spending money on hosting
- Jobs were only tempary on building buildings
- Advantages
- History Of Olympic Games
- 1936- Berlin. White, jews and blacks were to take part. Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals. Hitler refused to reward medals to him.
- 1968- Mexico City. Tommy Smith and John Carlos did a Black Power Salute when standing on the podium- highlighting descrimination of blacks in USA.
- 1972, Munich. Eleven Israeli olympians were murdered by terroists. They came for the request of the release of Palestrians in Isreal
- 1976- Montreal. Durg allergrations. New Zealand has just done rugby tour around Africa, mirred in apartheid. New Zealand were threatened by Africa to be boycotted from the games.
- 1980, Moscow. Largest Boycott if an olympic history. United States and 61 other countries.
- 1984, Los Angeles. U.S boycotted again and 17 other countries. Money causing problems and bebt. 1st Commuslised game.
- What are they?
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