ElizabethBernheisel Mrs. Whitney Pd. 5 College Composition II May 28, 2014

 While many U.S. athletes and corporations disagree that the International Olympic Committee should re-organize their infrastructure and build a permanent site for the games, many U.S. citizens would agree and have offered good solutions. Make Athens the Permanent Summer Olympics Site, Please! By Rahul MajumdarRahul Majumdar

Definition of Olympic Games Position against a permanent site Position for a permanent site The Mountain Cluster (Krasnaya Polyana) – ski jumping venue in Sochi

 The Olympic Games are the leading, large- scale, international sporting contest held every four years.  The goal of these games is intended to promote international goodwill.

 Visit new countries  Bran new venues  National pride  Corporations forge new relationships  Television shows the country’s beauty and goods they offer  Increase tourism

 Negative economic impact  Social impact  Environmental impact

 Early Olympics 776 B.C.  Peloponnesian Peninsula  Salute to the god Zeus  Modern Olympics 1896  Athens, Greece  Salute the athletic talents

 Countries from around the world rotate the host of the games by bidding then meeting the International Olympic Committee (IOC)requirements every two years  Phase 1 “Applicant City” -criteria: size, money, and media  Phase 2 “Candidate City” -will pay the $150,000 fee

 Can increase a host country’s economics, stimulate regeneration, is inspiring, and creates a ‘feel-good’ factor  Boost national pride and create national unity  Promote peace and understanding and it would also be a way into exciting foreign cultures  Showcase a country and encourage tourism  Create new jobs and the city gains new tax revenues from the new buildings  Money can also be made from broadcast revenues and ticket sales  Contractors and suppliers build for instant profits  Athletes train at these new facilities for future Olympics

Centennial Olympic Stadium became Turner Field for the Atlanta Braves

Greece Blames Olympics for Stoking Debt Crisis 16 billion 2004 Games The cost of hosting the Olympic Games is increasing at an alarming rate.

 Had to construct not only buildings, but new sewage works, roads, and a new train track New railway station in Adler New airport in Adler

The Bird Cage in Beijing as being completely vacant now and costing one billion a year to maintain. “The Athens Olympic Village is a ghost town, a stagnant landmark”

 Host cities being disrupted by multiple construction projects  Burden of meeting deadlines Sochi

 Russia also killed hundreds of stray dogs in preparation for the games.

 The hosting process is riddled with scandals, bribes, and corruption  Only international companies who are allowed in sell their goods at the Olympic Village like Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Cadbury, and Heineken

 Targeted for violence “Eleven Israeli athletes and coaches lost their lives when Palestinian terrorists stormed the athlete compound at the Munich Games in 1972.”

 World War I (1916)  World War II (1940 and 1944)  Cold War (1980 and 1984) large boycotts kept many athletes from competing Map of Olympic boycotts, showing the nations boycotting the 1980 games in blue.

 Cut out the “home field advantage.”

 Is it worth spending 50 billion for a seventeen day event? February 2014 SunMonTueWedThuFriSat

 One Permanent site in a neutral country  Practice year round  Participation fees for maintaining venues  Rotate between five different continents from five previous sites World map showing countries' degrees of neutrality. Switzerland Finland Austria Costa Rica Panama

 Seven temporary venues  Eighteen existing venues that were previously used for the Pan Am Games in 2007

 The International Olympic Committee should re-organize their infrastructure and build a permanent site for the Olympic Games.