Global Sporting Events

• Aims of the Olympic Games


  To promote the development of those physical and moral qualities that are the basis of sport

  To spread the Olympic principles throughout the world

  To bring together young athletes of the world

  To educate young people through sport in a spirit of better understanding and friendship
• The Olympic Values


  Encourage effort

  Preserve human dignity

  Develop harmony
• The Olympic Values


  Respect, Excellence, Friendship, Courage, Determination, Inspiration, Equality
• British Olympic Association (BOA)


  Responsible for the planning and execution of the Great Britain Olympic Team's participation in the Olympics and Winter Olympics

  Responsibility for developing the Olympic movement throughout the UK
• International Olympic Committee


  The world body that administers the Olympic movement. They are responsible for selecting the host cities of the Olympic Games, both summer and winter
• The Paralympic Values


  Determination

  Courage

  Equality

  Inspiration
• Berlin 1936 - Third Reich Ideology


  Used by hitler and the Nazi Party as a stage for political propaganda

  Opportunity for Nazis to show off the ideal race (Aryan race)

  Lutz Lang & Jesse Owens
• Propaganda


  A type of communication that seeks to influence people towards a certain cause and in, this case, a political philosophy
• Mexico City 1968 - Black Power Demonstration


  Boycott due to South Africa's apartheid regime

  Smith & Carlos protested on the podium by doing the black power salute

  Received a life long ban from the Olympics
• Apartheid


  A range of policies of racial segregation under a system of legislation. Apartheid existed in South Africa from 1948-1994
• Munich 1972 - Palestinian Terrorism


  A day before the Games began, eight Palestinian "Black September" terrorists entered the Olympic Village.

  Seized 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team
• Moscow 1980 - USA Boycott


  The Cold War led to Britain and USA boycotting the Russian games

  Only 6000 competed out of and expected 10,000
• Los Angeles 1984 - Boycott by the Soviet Union


  Soviet Union reverse boycotted the USA games due to the Russian boycott previously

  Blamed commercialisation of the games

  Hamburger Games