The olympics originated from Ancient greece, it was created to display each city-states athletic talents. The tradition evolved into the modern Olympics beginning in 1892 which helped mold many factors that is being used in modern olympics. For instance nationalism has a huge effect on the Olympics, based on what the documents given have shown. The olympics were also used to help countries display their power, feminism, and to create peace among each country. All of these elements that were listed provide to the fierce nature of the olympics. Having documents that display what a majority of the country’s citizens help visual the majority of the world’s view on the games and if they are beneficial. First the olympics helped countries create peace among each other. Wars between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have divided the world, for instance the cold war, WWI, and WWII. The reason the Olympics helped countries create peace is through the friendly athletic competitions that forced countries to unite together. Furthermore, Pierre de coubertin the founder of the modern Olympics view was to unite and revive the olympics, another view he had is to “reduce the chances of war”( Document 1) and to create ally’s through the olympics. According to …show more content…
In document 2 there is an image of Sybil Newall, one out of 2 percent of female athletes in the 1908 great britain games. Women slowly through the twentieth and twenty first century started to get notability in the Olympics. For instance Hassiba Boulmerka, 1992 games held in spain was part of this movement in the games. She believes “ A lot of women in my country are capable of becoming athletes, but psychologically, they don’t think so” (document 8) Because during the time society were holding women down. Hassiba Boulmerka represented the athletic women who could not be athlete’s. She is inspired to show that women are as equal as