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3.1.10. Modern Olympic Games Flashcards

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What year were the Ancient Olympics?

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776 BC

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What year was the end of the Ancient Games?

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394 AD

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What year was the Cotswold Dover Games?

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1612

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What year was the Much Wenlock Games?

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1850

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What year did Brookes meet de Coubertin?

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1890

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What year was the Athens Olympics?

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1896

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What year was the London Olympics?

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2012

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Who founded the Modern Olympic Games?

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Baron Pierre de Coubertin

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Who was de Coubertin?

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  • An influential, wealthy, young Frenchman who was an educator and historian
  • he had a vision to unite the world through sport
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What are the factors that influenced the Modern Olympic Games?

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  1. The Ancient Olympic Games
  2. Cotswold Dover Games -> Robert Dover founded these games in the early 1600s, shin kicking was the most significant event
  3. Much Wenlock Olympic Games-> founded by William Penny Brookes in 1850 and promoted moral, physical and intellectual improvement
  4. Brookes and de Coubertin shared the same vision to reinvent the Ancient Olympics
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How do the Olympics link to amateurism?

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The Olympics still follows amateurism values which were present during post 1850 industrial Britain

Olympic athletes are not paid for competing-> amateurs were competing solely for the love of sport

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What are the aims of the Olympic Games?

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  1. Develop physical and moral qualities
  2. Promote international goodwill and peace
  3. Unite and bring people together through sport held every 4 years
  4. Educate young people to improve international understanding
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What does the IOC stand for?

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The International Olympic Committee

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When and where was the IOC formed?

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1894 in Paris

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What is the role of the IOC?

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  • Supervises organisation of the games
  • Makes decisions on future games and changed to format
  • Supporting and supervising National Olympic Committees
  • Owns right to the Olympic flag, mott, anthem and the games itself
  • Ensures commercialisation of games is well managed
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What does the BOA stand for?

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British Olympic Association

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What is the role of the BOA?

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  • The National Olympic Committee for the UK
  • Dependent on commercial sponsorship/ fundraising
  • Responsible for UK’s participation in Olympic Games -> provides support for Team GB, selects athletes, responsible for drug testing
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What are the 7 Olympic/ Paralympic values?

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  • friendship
  • respect
  • excellence
  • determination
  • inspiration
  • courage
  • equality
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Why might countries use the Olympics for politics?

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Olympic Games used as a tool to make political points, due to their extensive global publicity.

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Berlin OG

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  • When: 1936
  • What: Political propaganda, promoting the third reich ideology
  • Who/how: Hitler and the Nazi party, German athletes trained full time undermining the amateur ideal

Why: Viewed Germany as a superior empire, Hitler refused to shake hands or place gold medals around neck of black American athlete, Jesse Owens

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Who were Lutz Lang and Jesse Owens?

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  • Lutz Lang: German superstar, long jumper and poster boy of OG
  • Jesse Owens: African-American athlete and therefore inferior under Nazi ideology
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Mexico City OG

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When: 1968

What: black power demonstration

Who/how: Tommy Smith + John Carlos, used a medal ceremony to wear black gloves and raise fist in the air- a gesture called the black power salute

Why: to fight the lack of civil rights in the USA, Peter Norman the Australian athlete who came 2nd wore a human rights badge

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Why was South Africa’s invitation to the Mexico City games withdrawn?

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Because of other countries threatening to boycott the games due to its apartheid regime

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Munich OG

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When: 1972- Munich Massacre

What: terrorist attack

Who/how: Palestinian terrorists, a day before the games began terrorists entered the Olympic village and seized 11 Israeli athletes; German authorities attempted a rescue but all hostages were murdered

Why: political request to release 234 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel

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Moscow OG:

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When: 1980

What: political protest/ boycott

Who/how: led by the USA, refused to attend the Moscow OG with 65 eligible nations who refrained from participating

Why: in protest of the Soviet Union who invaded Afghanistan in 1979
Soviet union= composed of 15 constituent Soviet socialist republics, a few of which include Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

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Los Angeles OG

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When: 1984

What: political protest/ boycott

Who/how: led by the Soviet Union, refused to attend the LA Olympics with a total of 14 nations who refused to take part

Why: in protests against the anti Soviet union propaganda by the USA. Soviet Union blamed the commercialisation of the Games and lack of security measures.

P.E- Miss Joyce (12 decks)

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