Hunter Norris

Dr. Buchanan
HHP 430
September 29, 2016
Phase I
1. From a sport and facility management perspective, is there a disconnect between
Olympic ideals associated with Olympism and the Olympic Movement and global
reality? Support your answer with concrete examples from the documentary.
Yes there is a disconnect because the IOC claims that they are have gender
equality but there are no women on the IOC. They also have people on the IOC who are
convicted criminals.
2. What are some ideals the IOC espouses versus the social reality?
The IOC wants to maintain power and how they demanded certain things from
hosts nations of the Olympics.
3. Who was Nicole Dryden and what did she discover during her research on the IOC?
Nicole Dryden was an Olympic swimmer and she investigated the IOC to see who
was in the program. She found that the IOC was made up of corrupt people who had
plagiarized their PhDs and some were convicted felons. This is not good for the Olympic
Movement and the promotion of Olympism.
4. Does the IOC have adequate representation in terms of gender equity? Explain your
answer.
No the IOC does not show gender equality. There were no women in the IOC and
during the Olympic Games women were not treated as equals to the men.
5. Why did Norway drop their bid to host the Olympic Games? Do you agree or disagree
with their decision? Why?
Norway dropped their bid because they knew the IOC was corrupt and did not
want to have to deal with the IOC and be told what to do. I agree with Norways decision
because they should not have to listen to the IOC when it is as corrupt as it is.
6. What really happens when a city hosts the Olympics? Provide specific examples.

The city that hosts the Olympics tries to whatever it can to gain attention from the
media. The Brazilian government takes peoples homes away and leaves them with
nowhere to go so they can build Olympic facilities. The Olympics give the local
authorities power to do whatever they want so that the city and nation looks good during
the Olympics.
7. What happened to the medical and school systems in Rio as a result of funding spent on
the Olympic Games?
The people cannot pay for health care and no money is given to hospitals so
people say to try and stay healthy because if you get sick there is no one that can help
you. People were sitting out in the halls waiting on a room that they were never going to
get due to budget cuts for the Olympics. The government also cuts funding from schools
to pay for the Olympics and schools were able to buy proper supplies for the children of
Rio.
8. As a housing advocate, what did Theresa Williamson discover?
Theresa discovered that sewage was coming from houses and flowing down the
streets and into the bodies of water where the Olympic water events were being held.
The water was contaminated and some of the Olympic athletes skipped the Olympics
because of these conditions.
9. Does the IOC promote human rights? Why or why not? Support your response with
specific examples from the documentary (Ex. Sochi and Beijing).
No the IOC does not promote human rights. They took peoples homes in Rio and
left them with nowhere to go. The IOC also brought in illegal workers during the Sochi
Winter Olympics so they would not be responsible for any injuries during the
construction of Olympic facilities. They also promised to pay the illegal workers but
after the work was over they never got paid what they were promised. The IOC also

approved for the Chinese government to tear down peoples homes to make way for the
main platform for the Beijing Olympics.
10. Based on the documentary, should Beijing have been awarded the 2022 Games? Why or
why not?
No I believe that Beijing should not be allowed to host the Olympic Games in
2022 because they did so many illegal things in the 2008 Olympics. They did not
show human rights and they tried to hide how corrupt their country really was.

Phase II
How much was the winning bid to host the Olympic Games?
I could not find an exact number on the winning bid but in the final vote Sydney

beat out Beijing, China by two votes to win the 2000 Olympic Games.
Was there controversy regarding the funds used to host the Olympics?
The Sydney Olympics cost a total of 6.6 billion dollars and funds were shifted

from health programs and educations to help with the cost of hosting the games.
Who provided the funds and at what cost to the host country, city, etc.?
Funds were taken from health programs and the education systems.

What was the total amount spent to host the Olympic Games?
The total cost for the Sydney Olympic Games was around 6.6 billion dollars.

What benefits (economic and otherwise) were evident as a result of hosting the Olympic
Games?
It has been estimated that the economic impact of the 2000 Olympics was that A
$2.1 billion has been shaved from public consumption. Economic growth was not
stimulated to a net benefit and in the years after 2000, foreign tourism to NSW grew by
less than tourism to Australia as a whole. In the years after the games, infrastructure
issues have been of growing concern to citizens, especially those in the western suburbs
of Sydney.

How were the various Olympic venues repurposed after the Olympic Games? Are there
articles, etc. which discuss this topic? Are there before and after photos available...if so,
include a sample.
Beijing lost its bid to host the games to Sydney in 1993, but was
later awarded the 2008 Summer Olympics in July 2001.

Did the Olympic Games transform the city? If so, in what way?

In preparing for the 2000 Olympic games in London, Lord Coe declared the
Sydney Games the "benchmark for the spirit of the Games, unquestionably" and
admitting that the London organizing committee "attempted in a number of ways to
emulate what the Sydney Organizing Committee did.
Phase III
The ETSU Buccaneers have recently brought back their football program and have started a lot
of excitement around northeast Tennessee. The Bucs use to play in the Mountain States Health
Alliance Athletics Center but the ETSU fan base really wanted a football atmosphere and the
ETSU faculty felt like the dome was not the place for football anymore and it was time to move
ETSU football outside. ETSU will start playing on their new field in the fall of 2017. The
stadium is a horseshoe design and will have a capacity of 10,000 plus. There will be a new field
house built in the south end zone and there will also be a skybox. The stadium will be located on
the southwest corner of campus and the whole operation will cost around 27 million dollars. The
stadium funding came from leadership investments, premium seat gifts, premium seat bond,
corporation marketing bond, and student fee bond. They also received money through donations.
Bringing back the football program to ETSU will help boost other sports on campus because
football typically brings in the most money. This money can be used to help upgrade other sports
facilities on campus and bring more students to campus (ETSU Athletics, 2016).
A new high school stadium is being built in McKinney, Texas and it is going to be the
most expensive high school football stadium built ever. This massive stadium is going to cost
62.8 million dollars and seat 12,000 people. Fox Sports says after a vote the town in Texas was
to devote $50.3 million toward the stadium out of a new $220 million bond. The other $12.5
million for the football stadium project will come from a bond approved by the town in 2000.

The great thing about this new stadium is that they can take money from the bond to build the
stadium to upgrade roofing and plumbing and other renovations to six schools in their district
(Aronson, 2016).

References
Aronson, Arielle. (2016). A Texas town is building a $62.8 million high school football stadium.
Retreived from: http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/mckinney-texas-high-school-football-newstadium-bond-050916
East Tennessee State University Athletics. 2016. Retreived from http://www.etsustadium.com/