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The Definite Article Via Roma 60 33100 Udine I S S U E 3 7 Summer 2012 0432 501252 KEEP TALKING THE DEFINITE ARTICLE VIA ROMA 60 33100 UDINE I S S U E 3 7 SUMMER 2012 0432 501252 S P E C I A L P O I N T S O F INTEREST: Kip Talking Two Olympic Sport Is An Art by Maurizio Costantini Quizzes! The Prize Article I love football, and that’s an idol, for a colour, for a victory depends on just a London 2012 because you can see 11 country, the Olympics are single sportsperson. Facts players organized a sort of global So the more victories are together in order to competition in order to gained by the Italian team, And many more create a show for people establish which are the the more honours and interesting who consider football as a values in the world of world respect we will get! articles from you kind of art like sculpture, every single country. Yes, What is even more painting, dance, theatre because the results are amazing to me is that the INSIDE THIS and cinema. the mirror of the country. result of 4 years of ISSUE: The Olympic games are The more you are able to preparation and training Sport Is An Art 1 the highest point of all organize your team from depends on just one day! this! childhood at school, the Good luck Italy! Kip Talking 1 They should be a show better performances you involving every country in will reach. The Ancient 2 the whole world, but for Where a country Olympics fans that are interested in is not well Not the Triumph 2 sport with a passion for organized the but the Struggle A Promise for 3 London 2012 All Spectacle and 3 No Athletics Kip Talking The Italian team at the Opening Ceremony in Beijing 2008 Politics and 4 Intrigue A Good 5 I remember my parents but today the medals table with the same nickname. Example? taking me to see Tokyo shows that we won 4, KIP Keino was the first Olympiad, a wonderful against the USA’s 36 and black African to make a Are the Games 5 documentary film about the Italy’s 10! I had a brief real impact on world Profitable? 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the athletics career as a member athletics and started a long The Olympics 6 first to be televised of South London Harriers line of African successes in and their Simple internationally. It was a and captain of the school Olympic competitions. But magical experience for an athletics team but I was the similarity ends at the The Olympic 6 8-year-old, with always much better at name – dark skin, speed, Spirit extraordinary images of watching than doing! elegance, all things which I heroic achievements and But I have another claim to don’t possess. Even his Jesse Owens 7 such pretty theme music. I fame: in the late 60s and 70s name meant ‘born near the Olympic 8 was convinced that Great there was a great Kenyan granary’ which was a bit Symbols Britain had done brilliantly middle/long-distance runner different from my origins! P A G E 2 The Ancient Olympics The Olympic Games because the Olympic of olive branches, they is a series of sports games were celebrated were supported by their events which takes in honour of Zeus. All city for all their lives and place every four free men speaking the they were immortalized years in different Greek language, coming in poems and statues. nations of the world. from all the cities of The situation changed They are a symbol of Greece and its colonies when the Romans peace and could participate. Slaves invaded Greece and brotherhood, and women could not gained power and represented by the participate, and neither influence, and when Olympic Flag: five could women be Christianity became the The first Olympic interlinked rings of spectators, maybe official religion. In 393 games consisted of different colours, to because men competed P.C., Emperor only one event—a represent the unity of completely naked. The Theodosius I banned the running race. the five continents: blue Olympic Games were Olympic Games as they for Oceania, black for appreciated because were considered a Africa, red for America, they unified the pagan practice. yellow for Asia and population. If there After 15 centuries, in London 2012 green for Europe. These were wars, truces were 1896, thanks to Pierre Fact: colours were chosen signed to allow athletes de Coubertin, the because every nation to participate. Olympic Games 205 nations had at least one of them Like today, there were returned with other are expected in its national flag… but opening, closing and rules, for example to take part in I won’t talk about the prize-giving ceremonies. athletes from all around 300 events at modern Olympic games Initially, there was only the world can the Olympic but about their history. one race (the stadion) participate (and since Games in The Olympic games then, other games were 1900 women too), the 2012. 147 were born in the introduced: another event takes place in nations will Olympia Valley in race (twice the distance different countries of take part in Greece and the first of the stadion), the world not only in the Paralympic event recorded was in wrestling, jumping, Greece… but we can Games. 776 B. C. (the year in javelin throwing, and so talk about this next which the Greek on. The winners became time. calendar started). It was legendary - they a religious celebration, received a crown made Mara Blasutto Not the Triumph but the Struggle Pierre de Coubertin, the I think that his famous have fought well.” father of the modern quote: Olympic games, was is one of the most important inspired by archaeological “The most important lessons, and not only for sport. explorations of ancient thing in the Olympic In my opinion, keeping this quote Greece. He believed in the Games is not to win but in mind is good exercise for a importance of physical to take part, just as the positively competitive approach education and saw the most important thing in to any field, such as sport, advantages of restoring the life is not the triumph school, work, research, Olympic Games as an but the struggle. The innovation and so on. international event essential thing is not to promoting world peace. have conquered but to by Fabrizio Redavid THE DEFINITE ARTICLE I S S U E 3 7 P A G E 3 A Promise To Watch London 2012 I’m ashamed to admit that I about the Olympics I they have the right reward… don’t know anything about imagine only the athletic some days of glory! the Olympics. I have never events. The attention of the mass taken an interest in media to the Olympics is watching the games on TV limited to a specific period or reading about them in unfortunately. Football is the the newspapers. Neither only sport which is promoted have I ever wanted to on TV, radio, the internet organize a long journey to and in newspapers all year be present live at the round. Olympic games. I promise you that I’ll follow There are the winter the “London 2012 Olympics” Olympics too but I don’t in order to avoid making such know when or where they are taking place next time. a fool of myself again. Maybe because I’m not a sportswoman! I played The London 2012 logo by Laura Buttolo volleyball when I was a child and now I usually go walking Is it right that a lot of London 2012 Fact: in my free time. money is spent on this Frankly speaking I don’t event because the athletes This is the third time that know exactly which sports dedicate many years of their London has hosted the Olympic are played during the lives and they always make Games. The previous two were Olympics. When I think big sacrifices? In this way in 1908 and 1948. All Spectacle and No Athletics I’m no fan of sport and I subways, clearing the city of spectacle especially dislike looking at litter, assigning hidden areas than the other people doing sport. I to hide the poverty. athletic find it boring. I hate it when After spending years perfor- business revolves around beautifying the country, the mances. For sport, so the Olympic opening day of the Olympic example, the Games are not the right Games must be a Italian entertainment for me. memorable event with champion A highlight from the The competition begins music, dances, lights, Federica Pellegrini may opening ceremony for the several years before the pyrotechnics and not be the flag bearer Beijing Olympics in 2008 great event, when a country spectacular choreography. for Italy in the opening has to be chosen to host Up to this point, nothing to ceremony because she can't the games. Then the do with sport happens. remain standing for 8 hours country has to be prepared The better the box, the the day before her race. for receiving thousands of worse the content, in my PRIZE visitors, by enlarging the opinion. Massimo Matassoni streets, building new The Olympic Committee ARTICLE! railways, speeding up the thinks more about the P A G E 4 Politics and Intrigue—An Olympic History by Flavio Lorenzon At the 1936 Olympics in and other “Non- Berlin the Afro-American Aryans” was Needless to say, the modern athlete Jessie Owens already public Olympic Games have nothing in achieved international knowledge common with the true spirit of fame by winning four gold before the sport at the time of ancient medals over a period of beginning of Greece.
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