The Future of the Olympic Games
The Olympic Games is a major international and multicultural event that brings athletes, officials and spectators together regardless of race, sex and colour. Baron Pierre de Coubettin started the Modern Olympics on 23 June, 1894 creating an honourable Spirit of Olympism, stating that "the most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part". But because of the increasing pressures, like cheating, drug abuse, corruption and bribery, the people will eventually fail in attempt to uphold the great "Olympic Spirit", sometime in the near future. As in the Ancient Olympic Games, when cheating and bribery became very common resulting the Olympic standards of theodosi and athletic skill becoming so badly insulted that the Christian Emperor of Sportsmanship banned them in AD 393. Drugs in sport is one of the most important issues, and one that has been going on for almost half a century in the Olympic Games. The dilemma of drug use has consequences for all aspects of human life, including legal, physiological, psychological and philosophical issues. The use of performance enhan
Another most common issues in the Olympics nowadays is corruption and bribery. It's been a scandal for years and it's the hardest one to be stop. Recently, around January 1999, the head of the organising committee for the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Frank Joklik quit after admitting bribery to the International Olympics Committee (IOC) during bidding. Investigators reported that he gave corrupted payment and gift worth more than US$1million to twenty four IOC members in return for the vote. As the result, five IOC members were expelled and the other three have already quit in connection to the scandal. This can be described as the worst issue that was involved in the events, though in almost all Olympic Games these scandals have always occurred. This issues can become the greatest threats to Olympism and if this keeps on going, the Modern Olympics might die because of the same reason, just like the Ancient Olympics. Throughout the years, technology that is related to sports have been developing rapidly. On the early Modern Olympic Games, results were recorded without any detail. St
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