Editorials

Summer Olypmpic Games Editorial

The Summer Olympic Games is an event that occurs every four years in the chosen city. The next Summer Games will be in London in 2012. These games started in Greece in 1904. Male athletes were able to participate and females weren't allowed. Now females are allowed to participate.

The Winter Olympics can't be practiced all over the world like the Summer Olympics. This excludes most of the countries of the world because they don't have snow, that's why the Summer Olympics have more athletes that participate in the event. The summer Olympics have lots of sporting events and the Wniter Olympics have less sports. All the nordic countries can participate in the Winter Olmpics and Argentina but the rest of the countries have to be excluded from this Winter Games because they don't have snow. In the Summer Games every country can participate.

I think the Winter Olympics should be eliminated because they exclude many countries that can't participate.


Winter Olympic Games Editorial

The Winter Olympic Games are a very polemic topic, and are discussed all around the world. In my opinion, the countries that have the opportunities should be able to compete in the games in which they are good at. They should be able to do activities they appreciate and use on an every day basis.

Many people that usually live in countries that cant compete because of climate, say they shouldn’t be done because not all places have the same conditions. These same people complain that northern countries have advantages because they have better climatic situations for practicing. I think that this is not a good enough excuse because nowadays there is enough technology for weather disadvantaged countries to compete and practice. For example, Jamaica which is a caribbean country, won the bobsled competition in the winter olympics.

Overall, the Olympic Games have been held since 1924 every four years. Before the Winter Olympic Games were held, some winter games took place in the Summer Olympics such as ice hockey and figure skating, so technically, winter activities have been held for more than a century. The next winter games will be on Russia in 2010, in the northern hemisphere again.
Summer Olympic Games are known in the entire world for their extended history of hundreds of years. That is one of the reasons why many people value them much more than Winter Olympics.

It’s much easier for everyone to practice a summer game because the majority of countries have the chance to practice all of these games. Meantime the winter games is a much complex competition because you need special climate conditions to practice any sport but in my opinion they are more contain more enthusiasm.