International Factors
- Created by: Emma Milner98
- Created on: 08-06-13 19:20
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- International Factors
- hosting an international event
- advantages
- profits for local businesses
- up in tourist numbers - sustains country
- unite behind home team
- medals rally - home field advantage
- world class facilities
- motivation to younger generation
- disadvantages
- huge costs
- possibility of terrorist attacks
- lack of organisation can make a country look bad
- waste of facilities
- pressure on local area
- short term employment
- advantages
- History of the Olympic games
- berlin- 1936
- only members of the Aryan race could compete for Germany
- Jesse Owens won many medals
- Hitler refused to award him his medals as he was not part of the Aryan race
- Mexico - 1968
- Tommie Smith & john Carlos
- during 'star spangled banner ' they both raised a hard
- performing a black salute, to recognise the treatment of blacks at that time
- Munich - 1972
- 11 Israeli Olympians murdered the day before
- 2 hostages were able to hurt their captors
- during a failed rescue 2 terrorists and 5 hostages were killed
- Montreal - 1976
- the games were marred by boycotts
- Afcia threated the Olympic games to get rid of New Zealand ot they would Boycott
- 26 African countries boycotted the games
- Moscow - 1980
- Americans stimulated boycott
- soviet Union invasion into Afghanistan
- US stated that if the soviet troops did not with draw they would boycott
- los Angeles
- the sovits in relation to the 1980 Olympic boycotted
- they did this along with east Germany, Cuba and 14 other countries
- as these countries boycotted there was a new comer China
- berlin- 1936
- hosting an international event
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