Olympics
- Created by: JoeyH
- Created on: 05-06-13 21:07
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- Olympics
- Tourism
- Increase in proft for businesses
- Showcasing the country
- Make them want to come back
- The country looks good
- Creation of jobs
- Facilities to be built
- experience gathered of different communities
- legacy created for next generation
- Younger athletese want to go out and play sport
- More people will keep fit
- Younger athletese want to go out and play sport
- Increase in pride behind the country and GB
- increased medal talleys
- wide range of sports being focused on
- Minority sports like handball get attention
- Paralmpics get a large amount of focus
- countries perception changed on disabled people
- Jobs will dissapate after olynpics have finsished
- cost of the olympic facilities and accomodation will be huge
- Possibility of terroist attacks
- Embarresment for the country
- Country could look bad and have a negative effect
- wasted facilities
- pressure on local area
- Police and emergency services exc.
- On the roads and public transport
- pressure on local area
- past olympics
- Berlin 1936
- Jesse owens, 4 gold medals, hitler refused to shake hands
- Mexico City 1968
- Joghn Carlos and Tommie Smith did the black power salute on the podium
- Mucnich 1972
- Israeli athletes taken hostage and some killed
- Montreal 1976
- 28 countries boycotted olympics due to arpthied
- Moscow 1980
- 62 countires boycotted olympics due to invasion of afghanistan
- LA 1984
- 15 countires boycotted in response to amercains boycotting soviet games
- Berlin 1936
- Tourism
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