Hockey Sticks and Heartstrings: The Men’s Gold Medal Hockey Game and the Affective Legacy of the 2010 Olympic Games

2015 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 83-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelsey Blair
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Hockey Game ◽  
Hockey Sticks

scholarly journals Seeding and gold medal probability in wrestling: a 2016 Rio Olympic Games analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 931-937
Author(s):  
İlkay Doğan ◽  
Özkan Işık ◽  
Mehmet Cüneyt Birkök
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Weight Category ◽  
Bayesian Theorem ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Olympic Games

The United World Wrestling carried out the implementation of seeding athletes for the first time at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. For this reason, the aim of the current study was to calculate the probability of winning a medal and becoming an Olympic Champion at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games of seeded wrestlers using the Bayesian theorem. The data were obtained from the results book of the Rio Olympic Games. The obtained data were analyzed Bayesian theorem. According to the results, the probabilities of being an Olympic Champion of first seeded wrestlers were 67.0%, 81.0% and 62.0% for males Greco-Roman, freestyle and female freestyle, respectively. As a result, being a seeded athlete had a great advantage to become an Olympic Champion in the wrestling competitions of the Rio Olympic Games. As the Olympic Games are held every four years, the medals in the Grand Prix tournaments, continental, and World Championships must be scored according to difficulty grade and medal colour, and the Olympic ranking should be established for each weight category. Furthermore, it would provide more competitive, challenging and enjoyable Olympic Games for wrestling and spectators.

Raising the Bar

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-45
Author(s):  
Cat M. Ariail
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Black Woman ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Black Womanhood ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Ideal Image ◽  
Sport Culture ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter chronicles the international athletic experiences of Alice Coachman, the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, examining how her successes, especially at the 1948 Olympic Games, challenged the ideal image of American athleticism and, in turn, American identity. The relative invisibility of Coachman in the white sporting press indicates that she raised uncomfortable questions about race, gender, and American belonging. The interracial homecoming held in her hometown of Albany, Georgia, and a visit to Oval Office further expose how Coachman’s achievement required white America to rethink the relationship between race, gender, and American identity. While black sport culture lauded Coachman, they presented her as figure of black womanhood, reinforcing the centrality of traditional gender roles to ideal Americanness.

Are smiles a sign of happiness? Gold medal winners at the Olympic Games.

1995 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 1113-1119 ◽  
Author(s):  
José-Miguel Fernández-Dols ◽  
María-Angeles Ruiz-Belda
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
The Olympic Games

A New Bicycle Design Based on Biomechanics and Advanced Technology

1987 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Dal Monte ◽  
L.M. Leonardi ◽  
C. Menchinelli ◽  
C. Marini
Keyword(s):  
Composite Material ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Body Position ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
World Record ◽  
Minimum Drag ◽  
Bicycle Frame ◽  
Bicycle Design

Advanced technology and biomechanics were applied in the development of a new bicycle. Factors investigated included the position of the cyclist, geometry of the bicycle, transmission system, and the drag characteristics. Several wind tunnel tests were conducted to determine the minimum drag conditions for bicycle configurations and positions of the athlete. The results showed a clear advantage for nonspoked disc wheels of high composite material without discontinuity between the tire and the wheel. The conventional bicycle frame was redesigned and the optimum body position of the cyclist was determined. These findings were utilized in the development of the bicycle ridden by Francesco Moser in establishing a new 1-hour world record in 1984, and also in aiding the gold-medal-winning 4 × 100 km Italian team in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.

“Patriots at Play”: Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of the Gold Medal Contenders in Men’s and Women’s Ice Hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Vincent ◽  
Jane Crossman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Winter Olympic Games ◽  
Gender Power ◽  
Invented Traditions ◽  
Theoretical Insight

This study compared how The Globe and Mail and The New York Times covered the Canadian and U.S. women’s and men’s ice hockey teams competing in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. A content-analysis methodology compared the amount and prominence of coverage devoted to the women’s and men’s teams. Each newspaper provided more coverage of the men’s teams and to its own national teams, particularly in prominent locations. Textual analysis was used to analyze how the gendered themes intersected with national identity in the narratives. Theoretical insight was drawn from Connell’s theory of gender–power relations, Anderson’s concept of the imagined community, and Hobsbawm’s theory of invented traditions. Four themes emerged: the future of hockey at the Winter Olympic Games, postgame celebrations, gendered discourses, and the importance of the gold-medal games. A discussion of each theme is presented.

scholarly journals Interview with Dr Richard Budgett, medical and scientific director for the IOC

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Medical Doctor ◽  
Scientific Director

This interview was conducted by Dr Boris Gojanovic after the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games. Richard, can you please introduce yourself, as a medical doctor and an athlete. I am the medical and scientific director for the IOC and I started off in life as a rower. As an athlete, I had the privilege to compete in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, and I won a gold medal there...

The Olympic Games in antiquity

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. W. PLEKET
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Olive Leaves ◽  
Olympic Athletes ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an invention of the ancient Greeks. They were held in Olympia in a quadrennial rhythm, without interruption for ca. 1200 years. Compared with the modern Olympics, the ancient programme was small: running events (over several distances), the pentathlon, and the so-called ‘heavy’ events: wrestling, boxing and pankration. Various equestrian events (with and without chariots) completed the programme. This programme is discussed with the athletes, their social background and ideology. Although in ancient Olympia a wreath of olive-leaves – a forerunner of our modern gold medal – was the first and only prize, there was no amateurism in Greek athletics. Olympic athletes happily participated in highly rewarding money games both before and after the Olympics. Money was not despised; abuse of money, in the form of Wine, Women and Song was criticized, but some athletes, then as now, were unable to resist the temptations of life.

Peers, Parents, and Teens: In Search of the Perfect 10

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 632-634
Author(s):  
ROBERT M. CAVANAUGH
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
World Record ◽  
People Today

Happiness seems like a very elusive goal for many young people today. They tend to believe that it comes from obtaining something they do not have rather than recognizing and appreciating what they do have.1 Use the 1984 Olympic Games as an example. Competitors who did not win a gold medal, break a world record, or score a perfect 10 were seemingly buried in a sea of mediocrity. Their accomplishments were not fully recognized and the success they had achieved was not appreciated. The public's eye, with all it's computers, instant replays, and other electronic wizardry, had dissected every movement and magnified every mistake.

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