Blogging Matters!!! : 'Insight' the 'Olympics' [Part Deux]

Day 26.

Welcome to Part 2 of this series. Hope you people read and liked the first part. And, like I said yesterday, that this part would be germane to the 'Modern Olympics' and the multifarious realms colligated with them. So, lets kick-off tonight's sojourn.

The History -

• Modern Olympic Games are, ''a modern sports festival held traditionally every 4 years.'' (Oxford Dictionary).
• These games were worked into lather by the Frenchman, Baron de Coubertin in 1896.
• The first Olympics of modern times were held in Athens, Greece in 1896.
• The Games are held in the first year of a 4 year period, known as 'Olympiad'.

The Politics -

• This platform was used for promoting other issues. Coubertin realised that if he reorganises the Olympic Games, it could be a platform for peace and development.
• Until there is political stability, you cannot organize the games.
• In 1936, the Berlin Games were used by the Nazi regime to bolster its image. So, these games were used as a means to exert political pressure.

The Entertainment Value -

• The modern games transmit entertainment values via sports like - athletic races, swimming, wrestling,etc.
• These values also tot up a cardinal element to the social change.
• They pitch in by enhancing the national identity and pride and mobilize social support for state- projects.
• The white-class or the white-working class were persuaded by the entertainment value of these games, as they made up the large spectatorship at these events.

Alright Readerland, this is the end of part 2 and hope you find the blog elucidative.
Now your turn to comment. Write what you reckon are the other interesting facts of the different realms colligated with these games ?
Thanks For Reading.

Thought Of The Day : - ''It's good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today, new seeds are growing.''
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