Mind Map

The above Mind Map was the beginning of my project; this is a bit of a brain storm where I jot down anything that came to my head. I started of with my main subject “Olympics” then expanded on issues that relate i.e., bidding, countries, favourite athlete, etc.

Olympic Rings

Rio Celebrates Race to Hose 2016 Olympics

Rio Celebrates Race To Host 2016 Olympics
8:55am UK, Saturday October 03, 2009

Rio de Janeiro celebrated after winning the race to host the 2016 Olympics, beating Madrid in the final round of voting.

It will be the first time the Games will be held in South America. Nearly 50,000 people erupted in joy on Rio's Copacabana beach when the announcement was made by IOC president Jacques Rogge in Denmark.
"Cariocas", as local residents are known, jumped and cheered in a Carnival-like atmosphere at the famous Brazilian attraction.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said: "All those people who thought we had no ability to govern this country will now learn that we can host the Olympics.
"There is a lot of work ahead of us and we will start working early."

The Brazilian people are good, generous and the country deserves it. The world has recognized that the time has come for Brazil."

Many residents hope life in Rio will improve considerably when the Olympics reach the city.
"Everyone's hope is for security and transportation to improve in the city, because the daily life of the carioca is very difficult," said Ricardo Chaves, a 47-year-old accountant.

Athlete Denise Lewis, who won gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, said giving it to Rio was the right decision.
She told Sky News: "I think it is fantastic. Every Olympiad, you want the Olympic movement to move forward and venture into uncharted territory." In the final round of voting, Rio polled 66 votes, compared to 32 for Madrid.

Rio 2016 Olympic Bid Successful

Chicago and Tokyo were both eliminated in the race to stage the Games in seven years time. The US city went out in the first round of voting in Copenhagen, while the Japanese city exited in round two.

Chicago's early departure was a major shock, as it had been considered one of the bookies' favourites.
Presence of Obamas not enough for Chicago bid to win, President Barack Obama had even flown to Denmark to push for the US bid.
He and his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, had made personal appeals on behalf of their hometown.

2016 Summer Olympics bidding results and Olympic Logos

City NOC Round 1 Round 2 Round 3

Rio de Janeiro Brazil 26 46 66


Madrid Spain 28 29 32

Tokyo Japan 22 20 —

Chicago United States 18 — —

Bidding 2016

The bidding process for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games was officially launched on May 16, 2007. The first step for each city was to submit an initial application to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by September 13, 2007, confirming their intention to bid. Completed official bid files, containing answers to a 25-question IOC form, were to be submitted by each applicant city by January 14, 2008. Four candidate cities were chosen for the shortlist on June 4, 2008: Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo (which hosted the 1964 Summer Olympics).

The IOC did not promote Doha to the Candidature phase, despite scoring higher than selected candidate city Rio de Janeiro due to their intent of hosting the Olympics in October, outside of the IOC's sporting calendar. Prague and Baku also failed to make the cut.
Nawal El Moutawakel of Morocco headed the 10 member Evaluation Commission, having also chaired the evaluation commission for the 2012 Summer Olympics bids.

The commission made on-site inspections in the second quarter of 2009. They issued a comprehensive technical appraisal for IOC members on September 2, one month before elections.

The final selection was made by the 115 voting members of the IOC membership on October 2, 2009, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
There are many restrictions barring the bidding cities from communicating with or influencing directly the 115 voting members. Cities can't invite any IOC members to visit them and they can't send them anything that can be construed as a gift. However, bidding cities invest large sums in their PR and media programs in an attempt to indirectly influence the IOC members by garnering domestic support, support from sports media and general international media. Jon Tibbs, a consultant on the Tokyo bid, was recently quoted as saying “Ultimately, you are communicating with just 115 people and each one has influencers and pressure groups but you are still speaking to no more than about 1,500 people, perhaps 5,000 in the broadest sense. It is not just about getting ads out there but it is about a targeted and very carefully planned campaign.

The final voting was held on October 2, 2009, in Copenhagen with Chicago and Rio de Janeiro perceived as favorites to land the games. Chicago and Tokyo were eliminated after the first and second rounds of voting, respectively, while Rio de Janeiro took a significant lead over Madrid heading into the final round.

The lead held and Rio de Janeiro was announced as host, becoming the first city in South America to host an Olympic games. Rejoicing Brazilians coined the phrase "Yes, we créu" (a play on U.S. President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign slogan) to celebrate the win.

2016 Summer Olympics

The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, are a major international multi-sport event to be celebrated in the tradition of the Olympic Games, as governed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The host city of the Games will be Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as announced at the 121st IOC Session (which is also the 13th Olympic Congress) held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on October 2, 2009. They are scheduled to be held from August 5 to 21, 2016. The 2016 Summer Paralympics will be held in the same city and organized by the same committee. They are scheduled to be held from September 7 to 18, 2016.

Bolt Cartoon

Cradle to Beijing

Usain Bolt, My favourite athlete

Usain St. Leo Bolt, C.D. (pronounced /juːˈseɪn/;[4] born 21 August 1986), is a Jamaican sprinter and a three-time Olympic gold medalist. He holds the world record for the 100 metres, the 200 metres and, along with his teammates, the 4x100 metres relay. He also holds the Olympic record for all three of these races. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Bolt became the first man to win three sprinting events at a single Olympics since Carl Lewis in 1984, and the first man to set world records in all three at a single Olympics. In 2009 he became the first man to hold the 100 and 200 m world and Olympic titles at the same time.

Nationality: Jamaican
Date of birth: 21 August 1986 (1986-08-21) (age 23)[1]
Place of birth: Trelawny, Jamaica[2]
Height: 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)[3]
Weight: 86 kg (190 lb; 13.5 st)[3]
















Personal bests:

100 m: 09.58 s (WR):
150 m: 14.35 s (WB):
200 m: 19.19 s (WR):
400 m: 45.28 s

Medal record:

Competitor for Jamaica
Men's athletics
Olympic Games

Gold 2008 Beijing 100 m
Gold 2008 Beijing 200 m
Gold 2008 Beijing 4 × 100 m relay

World Championships:

Gold 2009 Berlin 100 m
Gold 2009 Berlin 200 m
Gold 2009 Berlin 4 × 100 m relay
Silver 2007 Osaka 200 m
Silver 2007 Osaka 4 × 100 m relay

World Junior Championships:
Gold 2002 Kingston 200 m
Silver 2002 Kingston 4 × 100 m relay
Silver 2002 Kingston 4 × 400 m relay

World Youth Championships:
Gold 2003 Sherbrooke 200 m

World Athletics Final:
Gold 2009 Thessaloniki 200 m

Collage

This is a collage that I done in class relating to the Olympics

Jamaica Olympic History

Jamaica first participated at the Olympic Games in 1948, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then. In 1960, Jamaican athletes competed as part of the West Indies Federation team. Jamaica has also participated in the Winter Olympic Games since 1988, with the Jamaica national bobsled team achieving some fame. The Jamaican Bobsled Team first gained fame during their debut in the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They are also well known from their portrayal in the 1993 film Cool Runnings, based on their exploits in the Winter Olympics. Jamaican athletes have won a total of 53 medals, with all but one medal won in athletics, and the large majority of those in the individual and relay sprint events. The National Olympic Committee for Jamaica is the Jamaica Olympic Association, and was founded in 1936

Team Jamaica during the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony

Team Jamaica

Team Jamaica

I choose the Olympics as my subject because Team Jamaica from my homeland have been doing very well, especially in the 2008 Beijing Olympics .

Team Jamaica at Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony:

Jamaicans at home woke up in the early hours of the morning and Jamaica Nationals and fans all over the world gathered to watch the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China. The lengthy ceremony was nothing short of spectacular and when the Jamaican Team was announced they enjoyed wonderful support from the crowd in Beijing’s brand new National Stadium nicknamed the “Birds Nest”.

Olympic 200m Gold medalist Veronica Campbell-Brown was Jamaica’s flag bearer and the Jamaica team will be captained by World Silver medalist and national record holder in the Decathlon Maurice Smith during the games.

Female Members of Jamaica Olympic Team 2009:

Veronica Campbell-Brown, Kerron Stewart, , Aleen Bailey, Shelly-Ann Fraser, Kenia Sinclair, Sherone Simpson, Sherri-Ann Brooks, Simone Facey, Chelsea Hammond, Nickiesha Anderson, Nickiesha Wilson, Rosemarie White, Novlene Williams-Mills, Vonette Dixon, Shericka Williams, Bobby-Gaye Wilkins, Olivia McKoy, Madrea Hyman, Korine Hinds, Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Delloreen Ennis-London, Andrea Bliss, Melaine Walker, Shevon Stoddart, Shareefa Lloyd, and Anastasia Le-Roy.

Male Members of Jamaica Olympic Team 2009:

Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell, McFarlane, Michael Frater, Marvin Dwight Thomas, Julien Dunkley*, Ricardo Chambers, Andre Wellington, Adrian Findlay, Michael Blackwood, Anderson, Sanjay Ayre, Maurice Smith, Marvin Essor, Lansford Spence, Maurice Wignall, Richard Phillips, Danny Nesta Carter, Markino Buckley, Isa Phillips, Herbert McGregor, Dorian Scott, Aldwyne Sappleton, Christopher Williams, and Allodin Fothergill.

Political Cartoon - Favourites

Whilst undertaking my research on political cartoon I came across many
defferent cartoons, below are a selection of my favourite ones.

The History of Olympics

According to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles (the Roman Hercules), a son of Zeus. Yet the first Olympic Games for which we still have written records were held in 776 BCE (though it is generally believed that the Games had been going on for many years already). At this Olympic Games, a naked runner, Coroebus (a cook from Elis), won the sole event at the Olympics, the stade - a run of approximately 192 meters (210 yards). This made Coroebus the very first Olympic champion in history.
The ancient Olympic Games grew and continued to be played every four years for nearly 1200 years. In 393 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I, a Christian, abolished the Games because of their pagan influences.
Approximately 1500 years later, a young Frenchmen named Pierre de Coubertin began their revival. Coubertin is now known as le Rénovateur. Coubertin was a French aristocrat born on January 1, 1863. He was only seven years old when France was overrun by the Germans during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Some believe that Coubertin attributed the defeat of France not to its military skills but rather to the French soldiers' lack of vigor.* After examining the education of the German, British, and American children, Coubertin decided that it was exercise, more specifically sports, that made a well-rounded and vigorous person.
Coubertin's attempt to get France interested in sports was not met with enthusiasm. Still, Coubertin persisted. In 1890, he organized and founded a sports organization, Union des Sociétés Francaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA). Two years later, Coubertin first pitched his idea to revive the Olympic Games. At a meeting of the Union des Sports Athlétiques in Paris on November 25, 1892, Coubertin stated,
Let us export our oarsmen, our runners, our fencers into other lands. That is the true Free Trade of the future; and the day it is introduced into Europe the cause of Peace will have received a new and strong ally. It inspires me to touch upon another step I now propose and in it I shall ask that the help you have given me hitherto you will extend again, so that together we may attempt to realise [sic], upon a basis suitable to the conditions of our modern life, the splendid and beneficent task of reviving the Olympic Games.**
His speech did not inspire action. Though Coubertin was not the first to propose the revival of the Olympic Games, he was certainly the most well-connected and persistent of those to do so. Two years later, Coubertin organized a meeting with 79 delegates who represented nine countries. He gathered these delegates in an auditorium that was decorated by neoclassical murals and similar additional points of ambiance. At this meeting, Coubertin eloquently spoke of the revival of the Olympic Games. This time, Coubertin aroused interest.
The delegates at the conference voted unanimously for the Olympic Games. The delegates also decided to have Coubertin construct an international committee to organize the Games. This committee became the International Olympic Committee (IOC; Comité Internationale Olympique) and Demetrious Vikelas from Greece was selected to be its first president. Athens was chosen as the location for the revival of the Olympic Games and the planning was begun. Source: Jennifer Rosenberg

London Olympic 2012: Whilst doing my research I came across this cartoon which I found interesting.

World Olympic

The Olympic Games are a major international event of summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes compete in a wide variety of events. The Games are currently held every two years, with Summer and Winter Olympic Games alternating. Originally, the ancient Olympic Games were held in Olympia, Greece, from the 8th century BC to the 5th century AD. In the late 19th century, Baron Pierre de Coubertin was inspired by Olympic festivals to revive the Games. For this purpose, he founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894, and two years later, the modern Olympic Games were established in Athens. The IOC has since become the governing body of the Olympic Movement, whose structure and actions are defined by the Olympic Charter.

The evolution of the Olympic Movement during the 20th century forced the IOC to adapt the Games to the world's changing social circumstances. Some of these adjustments included the creation of the Winter Games for ice and snow sports, the Paralympic Games for athletes with physical disabilities, and the Youth Olympic Games for teenage athletes. The IOC also had to accommodate the Games to the varying economical, political, and technological realities of the 20th century. As a result, the Olympics shifted away from pure amateurism, as envisioned by Coubertin, to allow participation of professional athletes. The growing importance of the mass media created the issue of corporate sponsorship and commercialization of the Games.

The Olympic Movement currently comprises international sports federations (IFs), National Olympic Committees (NOCs), and organizing committees for each specific Olympic Games. As the decision-making body, the IOC is responsible for choosing the host city for each Olympic Games. The host city is responsible for organizing and funding a celebration of the Games consistent with the Olympic Charter. The Olympic program, consisting of the sports to be contested at each Olympic Games, is also determined by the IOC. The celebration of the Games encompasses many rituals and symbols, such as the Olympic flag and torch, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies. There are over 13,000 athletes that compete at the Summer and Winter Olympics in 33 different sports and nearly 400 events. The first, second, and third place finishers in each event receive gold, silver or bronze Olympic medals, respectively.

The Games have grown in scale to the point that nearly every nation is represented. Such growth has created numerous challenges, including boycotts, doping, bribery of officials, and terrorism. Every two years, the Olympics and its media exposure provide unknown athletes with the chance to attain national, and in particular cases, international fame. The Games also constitute a major opportunity for the host city and country to promote and showcase themselves to the world

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