Episode 6: The Olympics

Here is the video for this topic:

Here are the links:

History of the Olympics:

1 Penn Museum https://www.penn.museum/sites/olympics/olympicorigins.shtml

2 Olympics official website https://www.olympic.org/ancient-olympic-games/history

The info like the motto and rings can be seen on the official website as well

Issue 1- The Economics of Olympics

Brazil: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jul/29/students-speak-the-rio-olympics-come-at-a-cost-to-brazils-poorest

General:

1 The economic impact of the Olympics https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets-economy/092416/what-economic-impact-hosting-olympics.asp

2 A good article on how Olympics influences the host countries

https://www.aperianglobal.com/social-cultural-impacts-hosting-olympic-games/

3 The weirdest cities to host Olympics https://www.marketplace.org/2014/02/06/9-weirdest-cities-have-hosted-olympics-and-why/

TV viewership:

1 TV broadcast rights data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympics_on_television

2 TV viewership stats https://www.statista.com/statistics/287966/olympic-games-tv-viewership-worldwide/

3 Decrease in TV viewership https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/2018-winter-olympics-ratings-2-1202710137/

Issue 2-Pandemics and Olympics: can they coexist peacefully?

Zika:

1 Article from the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/12/rio-olympics-zika-amir-attaran-public-health-threat

2 But in the end, no new cases during the Olympics https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/health/zika-rio-olympics.html

Delay of current Olympics: https://youtu.be/4yBdudLwncY

Footballer who died from the virus: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/coronavirus-footballer-21-youngest-victim-21700420

Issue 3-Doping and Vaporflying

Russia scandal: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/sports/russia-doping-ban.html

Vaporfly: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/02/09/nikes-vaporfly-shoes-changed-running-track-field-world-is-still-sifting-through-fallout/

Or if you prefer a video: https://youtu.be/wVXrIaPuP7c

India’s reason for poor Olympic performance: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36941269

Some small stuffs

Boycotting during the Cold War: https://www.nationalcoldwarexhibition.org/schools-colleges/national-curriculum/social-economic-issues/olympic-boycotts.aspx

A tale of two Koreas

1 for 2018 https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/17/asia/north-south-korea-olympics-flag-intl/index.html

2 for 2020 https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/02/sport/north-south-korea-tokyo-2020-olympics-spt-intl/index.html

Independent olympians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Olympians_at_the_Olympic_Games

Refugee team: https://timeline.com/no-home-no-team-no-flag-a-history-stateless-athletes-at-the-olympics-ff4966f8f9ea

New vid by Wendover - The logistics of the Tokyo Olympics https://youtu.be/B3FKtBNEBRc