Social Environment

Womens' Rights To Compete In The Olympic Games

The first Olympic Games that allowed women to enter was in 1900 Paris, France. Out of 1,225 athletes 19 of them were women. Slowly the number of women competing in the olympics has increased. In 2000 Sydney, Australia Olympic Games, out of 10,651 athletes, 4,069 were women.

Economy

Economy has been playing a huge part in sport/The Olympic Games. The sports industry makes loads of money for selling all their top quality gear to professional athletes. But most famous olympic athletes are paid huge sums of money to have some sport's, brand's logos on their sports outfit. For instance: There was a 1,000,000 dollar reward from Speedo's swim company if Micheal Phelps tied world record of 7 gold medals in a single Olympics(from swimming)set by Mark Spitz from the U.S.A in 1972 Munich, Germany Olympic Games, in a Speedo's outfit.

One of the main reasons America, China, Russia ect. have such great success in the olympics is because they can afford to send alot of highly trained athletes to compete in the olympic games, it would cost a fortune to train and send only 100 athletes to the olympic games and few countries have the money to do this. You'll find the olympic 'medal per head table' alot different to the over all medal winner.

War

War has effected many olympic games. One of the prime examples is the 1936 Berlin, Germany Olympic Games, which was actually scheduled for Spain but the didn't go ahead because of the civil war that was going on at the time. Some countries went as far as boy cotting the olympics because they were outraged that Germany/Hitler were going to host the olympic games. Hilter created more problems when he only presented German athletes with their medals. The olympic comity said that Hitler had to present all athletes medals or none at all. From then on he presented none at all. Now the olympic games are an excuse to stop war and are to be held in peace and fairness.