The process to bring the Olympics to a specific country is a huge process that can mean billions of dollars being poured into your economy. It can take years to put together a bid that is worth enough to be put in contention with other countries. Governments spend a lot of money developing a plan to even get a nomination.
We spent class time trying to develop a plan for our chosen country to get the chance to host the Olympics. There were so many factors and different aspects of our country to highlight, it was difficult to put together a representation good enough in that time. The binders Dr. Spencer let us use showed projects from former graduate students. I feel like this would be a fun project to actually do. I'm sure they had a month to work on it though.
The Olympics are my favorite sporting activity to watch. I love seeing the best athletes in the world compete against each other. There are so many different events that are not mainstream that are broad casted during the Olympics. My first memory of the Olympics was watching Apolo Anton Ohno in the 2002 games held in Salt Lake City.
Actually, the grad classes have the entire semester to prepare their bids for the Olympics. And the judges are 4 or 5 BGSU faculty members, so it turns out to be a big presentation!
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