Personally as a huge fan of the Olympics
when asked to argue why it’s not a globalized sport and discover the negatives,
I was dumb founded. With 204 countries around the world competing, my original
thoughts were how could this event not be considered globalized and a positive
world wide event.
But once I looked pass the gold medal hype
and the inspiring stories about how people have fought back against the odds
and won gold. I started to delve into the not so pretty side of the Olympics….
The drug cheats and scandals place
unrealistic expectations on athletes, they turn to drugs to enhance their
ability in the ultimate goal to achieve gold. Every Olympics there a new
scandals and Olympians never seem to learn…just a few hours ago Olympiad
Alex Schwazer- let the pressure of games get to him and with his only
explanation being he had ‘expectations
that’s I had to dominate’. Stories like this take away from the fun and
friendly aspect of the games.
Olympics portray themselves as a global
event but infact they waste millions of dollars every Olympics to sponsor
smaller countries, to project this image to the world of it being a
global event. But this act of generosity is now being recognized as just having
token competitors from different countries, with no real expectation of them
doing well or getting close to getting a medal.
Also these developing countries, that only have one or two athletes competing- they will never have the funds to be able to host a Olympic games, so the same countries will keep recycling the duty of host? This is a downside to the Olympics and justify why it can be defined as a truly globalised event.
