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Lecture 10 Flashcards

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what are modern day olympics based off

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ancient olympics that happened that over 2500 years ago in ancient greece

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how long did olympics last in ancient greece

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over 1000 years

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what were ancient greek games based off

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ideals, ideas of strong mind and body

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what did greeks emphasize

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sports and PA

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what was greece at that time

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collection of city states, no such thing as greece

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what were city states in

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competition
constantly in wars, competing for pride and dignity, to say their better

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what did the constant wars between city states lend itself naturally to

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sport
numerous sporting events happened not just olympics that pitted athletes from different states against one another

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why did ancient games die out

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largely because roman empire was christianized
christianity became official religion

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what did christianity in ancient greece cause

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church moved to stamp out pegan rituals
olympics were based off greek gods so stamped out

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what does renaissance reintroduce

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greco roman ideas in western europe
idea of olympics is reintroduced

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who is primary figures in creation of modern olympics

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Pierre de Fredy, Baron of coubertin

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who was coubertin

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french aristocrat
modern olympics is his brain child

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what does coubertin do with olympics

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brings aristocratic sporting ideals and imbed them in modern olympics

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what were specific aristocratic ideas of how and why to play sports Coubertin brought to olympics

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sports should be amateur, pure, gentlemanly (no ladies)

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later when women were allowed to compete what sports could they do

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only ones that werent considered dangerous to them

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where was first modern olympics

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athens, greece 1896

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Where was ancient olympics held

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olympia

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18
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who was spirydon louis

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  • greek
  • competed in first olympics
  • first winner of marathon
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what was spirydon louis an example of

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mix of nationalism, heroism, and sport, that is common at olympics

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what did modern olympics include

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classic sports like boxing, wrestling, discus

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21
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what was a new modern olympic sport

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marathon

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22
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what was marathon based off

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ancient greek story
race from marathon to athens
most people who ran it had never run that far before

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what is spyridon louis known for

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  • wins prototypical greek event in the first olympics
  • while he was running throught roads through villages he stopped had a glass of wine and won the race
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what becomes a big part of olympics

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nationalism

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what does olympics start off as

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not very big, very niche, had other competing international competitions

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what happens as olympics becomes more popular

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starts to swallow up all other sporting events and become dominant

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by 1930s olympics had

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established itself as biggest sporting event in world

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what did countries think hosting showed

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putting your best foot forward

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what was 1936 olympics in berlin used as

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propoganda tool by Hitler and the Nazis

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in 1936 what was happening in germany

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Hitler had full control, was dictator, host of laws stripping jews of rights, jobs, property, land

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what did world think of germany in 1936

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did not care
canada sent a full team

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what was canadian prime minister at time

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King was an admirer of Hitler
impressed at what hitler has accomplished in germany

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33
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what do we try to forget about today

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how world embraced nazi germany

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controversy at 1968 mexico olympics

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mexican army fired and killed a host of protestors before olympics

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controversy at 1972 munich olympics

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palestinian terrorists took hostages and killed them during games

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controversy at 1980 moscow and US olympics

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boycott in response to canada and US, because western teams didnt go to protest russian invasion of afghanistan

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what controversy happened at 1984 LA

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in response to 1980 boycott none of soviets of eastern block (poland, bulgaria, east germany, etc)

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what are controversy surrounding beijing and russia olympics

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questions of whether or not we should be protesting or sending teams because bad human rights record
- canada didn’t do anything

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39
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what did olympics stay as until late 1980s

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basic format
- stayed amateur, limited who could compete and the prestige of winning a medal in many sports
- everyone made money except athetes

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40
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who made money from olympics

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country who hosted
olympics themselves made so much
not athletes

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41
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what did athletes want the olympics to accept

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that amateurism was a dead end

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42
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what started to happen to sport

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sports that were strictly amateur became professionalized
height was not winning olympic medal anymore
pressure for olympics to change

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43
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what rule did olympics change

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pass rule that every sport federation can choose whether their olympic sports should be amateur or professional

44
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what has almost every sport accepted now

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professionals

45
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what sport was one of first to accept pros

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basketball

46
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what did americans always send to olympics

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amateur collegiate players
1992 barcelona announced they would allow pros

47
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what was every single player on american dream team in 1992

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a hall of famer

48
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1976 summer olympics

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hosted by montreal

49
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how many summer olympics has canada hosted

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one

50
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what happened with montreal summer olympics

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cost of hosting was so high and montreal went into so much debt it took them 30 years to pay it off

51
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what were montreal olympics known for

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poor planning, particularly in terms of infrastructure usage

52
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what was poor infrastructure usage

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stadium still there, seats 66 000 people, montreal expos used to play but no one uses it anymore
sits empty and always huge cost but higher to get rid of

53
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what was one of reasons montreal hosted

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promoting canada became very big
effort to put canada on world stage
also hosted world fair in 1967

54
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what was one of other problems in montreal

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we sucked at sporting part of olympics

55
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who hosted next in canada

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people were terrified to host until calgary in 1988 hosted winter olympics

56
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why was calgary more successful

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infrastructure and economics
didnt lose money, made money
planned their infrastructure so they could use after olympics

57
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what did olympic villlage sell as after

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apartments for people

58
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why was calgary successful in social way

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putting canadas best foot forward
people came from around the world and it was organized

59
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how did we do at winter calgary

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still did poor
was worse because we were supposed to be good at winter stuff`

60
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what did we win at calgary olympics

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no golds
one silver and 2 bronze

61
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what was part of problem of why we sucked

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canadians didnt care

62
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what happened in 1998 winter olympics

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changed rules and allowed pro hockey players to compete for first time

63
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what did we think when they allowed pro hockey players

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we get to put our best athletes and steam roll the rest of the world, send a message`

64
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what happened in 1998 with pro hockey players at olympics

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got knocked out in semi finals, lost to Czech
only big thing that grezki never won

65
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why did losing hockey in 1998 hurt for canadiasn

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we didnt mind when we couldnt send best NHL players but now we cared

66
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when did redemption come for olympics hockey

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salt lake city 2002
both men and women won olympic hockey gold
expected women but for men it was big deal

67
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where were 2010 olympics hosted

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vancouver

68
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what did vancouver olympics follow

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model of calgary
built smartly with infrastructure, make money, successful in terms of people coming to canada and loving it

69
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what was the important difference with vancouver

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we won alot and didnt suck
set record for medals by a canadian olympic tean

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what was part of reason for winning in vancouver

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government and private investors created a program called own the podium
picked canadian athletes who had shot at winning medal and directed funding towards them and it worked

71
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what was own the podium for the country

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controversial (everyone else does this)
not canada though, there was huge backlash, we dont focus on winning

72
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although vancouver was successful what were controversies surrounding

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  • symbol of inukshuk
  • shipped homeless out of downtown vancouver
73
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what did they do with homeless after olympics

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kicked them out of shelters

74
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what was controversy around inukshuk

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inuit stones symbol
they live up north
lots of indigenous in vancouver, 3 treated signed in vancouver itself
didnt pick any of these groups to be a symbol
protrayed startling lack of knowledge on indigenous

75
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when did calgary bid for olympics again

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for 2026 but voted no

76
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what is happening in contemporary society today

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major sporting events are struggling to find people willing to host
many events where theres one bidder

77
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why dont people want to host

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crazy expensive, so many things atttached, not worth it, cant justify the expense

78
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what is sport washing

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making country look good by hosting major sporting events

79
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why are demoacratic countries less likely to host

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cost
in democracy you must go to voters

80
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why can dictatorship host

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if anyone says you spent too much, they are killed, they can spend however much they want

81
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why is the olympics a tool of normalization

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able to invite whole world, be seen with world leaders, seen by audiences watching, normalizes their participation in international affairs

82
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what is the most successful summer olympic team in history

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womens soccer team
only team to actually win medals

83
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who is at center of huge scandal right now

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bev priestman, woman who helped lead them to gold
current coach

84
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what is scandal

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in most recent olympics, canada assistant coach was caught spying on another teams practice

85
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what happened after scandal came out to team

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fined and deducted points
coach suspended, assistant coach suspended

86
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what happened in canada after scandal

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huge self flagellation
now have begun huge investigation in canadians womens soccer culture

87
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what happens in soccer

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everyone spies on other teams
relatively minor thing
coaches would watch, players never saw
biggest problem was that we got caught

88
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contemporary issues

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  • violence, injuries and life expectancy
  • gender
  • race
  • economics
  • performance enhancement
89
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what is violence becoming

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more popular in certain contexts but at same time violence is being removed from many sports

90
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what does UFC represent

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far less violent form of martial arts then traditional boxing
boxing has 12 rounds and 10 secs to get back up so worse brain injuries
in UFC if knocked unconscious dont get back up

91
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what is problem with pushing through pain

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  • still seen many people competing when they shouldnt be, especially at amateur level
  • imbedded in sports culture
92
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what are we seeing in adolescents with overuse injuries

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young athletes competing in way too many practices and games each week
leading to bad overuse injuries

93
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what is the contemporary issue with life expectancy

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big part of purpose of sport was idea of being healthy and yet at highest level shown to be counter to health
live worse and shorter lives then people who dont compete

94
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what are problems with sport hyper-masculinity

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very negative masculine traits taken to extreme and becoming negative

95
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what does nature of sport tend to reward

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many negative traits

96
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what is new huge problem with male sport

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body image
huge spike in steroid use

97
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what is still happening with female body image

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women are still being judged more on their appearance then their athletic ability

98
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what are we starting to see with female pro sports

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starting to be compensated at much higher level
still long way until they get to level of men, but moving it right direction
draw more and more people watching

99
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what is happening with money in sports

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  • moving in negative direction
  • always been issues with gambling
  • years ago it was not allowed
  • now allowed to bet and access is super easy
100
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what has athlete compensation started to become

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positive, good thing, fairly compensated

101
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issue of racism

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  • continues to be major problem
  • different sports grapple with different aspects
102
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examples of racism issue

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  • because not many visible minority players in sports like hockey, lots of push back to those players
  • in football majority of players are black, most coaches are white and all owners are white
103
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what has there been efforts to do with racism

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efforts to stamp out
much less blatant then it used to be
much more subtle

104
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performance enhancement issue

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as long as huge financial and reputation reward for doing well, we will always see storoids and people trying to make performance better

105
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what is one way to deal with cheating

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  • dont make it cheating
  • logic is its their choice but problem is that anyone that wants to participate will have to partake in unhealthy activity to be able to compete

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