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🔥 The Olympic Games have historically spurred national pride. However, this year, leading up to the Games, something’s different, and the shifting social, economic, and political landscapes, as well as the divisions at home, have eroded how we feel about ourselves as Americans and our country. Could recent events signal a ground shift toward an Americana redux and a new sense of national pride during these Games and into the future? 💡 This article includes insights from Heather Cox-Richardson, Dan Kanninen, Jotaka Eaddy and KJ Miller. 🔗 Read more: https://lnkd.in/g4WkVQBP

#ArtBaselStories: How contemporary artists have embraced athleticism? 🎾 Let's get physical! The upcoming Paris Olympic Games have triggered a renewed interest in practices that explore the highs and lows of sports. Read full story: bit.ly/3WsFjjS

Elite sport is a world where science, pseudoscience, and superstition have become interconnected. Olympic athletes are susceptible to imagined effects, and the evidence is everywhere. So, what is it about the modern sporting world that has athletes suspending their skepticism in favor of rituals, miraculous thinking, and baseless commercial claims? Read on in a new Skeptical Inquirer: https://lnkd.in/eYKz2uAT

When the artists superego gets in the way of fulfilling the Mission: In this video, Thomas Jolly prepares for the grand opening spectacle that will inaugurate the Paris 2024 Olympics. He was given two years to prepare an opening performance he knew would be broadcast around the world, but what he came up with made a mockery of Christianity and its 2.4 billion followers throughout the Americas, Europe, Oceania and sub-Saharan Africa. “In the ego psychology model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual desires; the superego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic agent that mediates between the instinctual desires of the id and the critical superego;[1] Freud compared the ego (in its relation to the id) to a man on horseback: the rider must harness and direct the superior energy of his mount, and at times allow for a practicable satisfaction of its urges. The ego is thus "in the habit of transforming the id's will into action, as if it were its own." Wikipedia

What are the Educational, Health, or Economic Benefits to these Players and their Families for that kids uncompensated participation in any additional “NON-SCHOLARSHIP” private third-party postseason football games that pay the Universities and the Conferences for the use of their free labor to put on these highly profitable Bowl events. The answer is ZERO! These additional 1-5 POSTSEASON games are also above the Players’ 12-Game athletic scholarship agreement? Our Proposal offers Major Benefits in all three Categories to the Players and their Families! Scholarship Football Players are owed Hundreds of Millions of dollars from this year’s Media contract that uses these Players’ Name, Image, and Likeness NIL without any equitable financial consideration to the Players or their Families! This lost Money could have a major impact on these Players lives, the lives of their current and future family members for generations? We do not support, or agree with the House vs NCAA Settlement or the current covert attempts to extend and expand this Antitrust exploitation of our young (mostly minority) FB & BB Players' labor that the US Supreme Court and Federal District Court have recently struck down as illegal and implausible.

The recent withdrawal of Charlotte Dujardin from the Olympics due to a historic video highlights how past actions can resurface and impact one’s reputation. This incident is a strong reminder of the importance of accountability and transparency, not just in sports, but in all areas of public life.   In today’s digital age, how can we better prepare for and manage the repercussions of our past actions to protect our reputations?   https://lnkd.in/gZ9X7Ss7

5 Important Things that the judges in Summer Olympic Events look for: A. Artistic View = 100 points. B. Technical Appearance = 100 points. C. Strategical Position = 100 points. D. Historical Perception = 100 points. E. Tactical Motion/Maneuver = 100 points.

Ahead by a Century: remembering the 1924 Paris Olympics All Olympic Games are important, but the 1924 Summer Games in Paris stand out for the start of live radio transmissions, the creation of the Olympic Village, and the introduction of the motto “Faster, Higher, Stronger.” The modern Games ushered in a new era of international sports competitions that has only continued to expand in size and spectacle since 1924. https://lnkd.in/gfg_Yz_7 📸 https://lnkd.in/gTuNHnsf

Did you know that an official poster for the Olympic Games was presented by the organisers for the first time on the occasion of the 1912 edition in Stockholm ? Our Reference Document “Olympic Summer Games Posters from Athens 1896 to Tokyo 2020” presents the official poster of each edition of the Olympic Summer Games. The poster is accompanied by a brief description of the work and, when available, information related to the artist, the printer, the design process, as well as the creation and dissemination context. It also includes examples, not necessarily exhaustive, of other promotional posters published in connection with an edition of the Games. All the posters which appear in this document are preserved in the Olympic Museum collections. Discovering the Olympic posters is therefore an invitation to retrace the history of the Games in a pictorial journey through the ages and the continents! This document is available on the Olympic World Library here https://lnkd.in/e-q_QxXM, the winter version is available here https://lnkd.in/eC6yhnCf, and you can access the entire collection here https://lnkd.in/eHXBtt2x. The content of these documents can be used for non-commercial, educational, research, analysis, review or reporting purposes.