Pyeongchang Winter Olympics 2018: Peace, Harmony, And Convergence

The sequence of events and stadium design of Pyeongchang Winter Olympics 2018

Discuss about the Style And National Identity Reflected In Olympics.

The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics that was held in South Korea 2018 had the central theme of peace along with togetherness. It focussed on the aspect of reconciliation and the participation of the two Korea helped in focussing on the message of peace. The stadium of the Pyeonchang Winter Olympics combined in its designs different kinds of geometric forms like circle, squares along with triangles (Pyeongchang2018.com 2018). The three forms helped in representing heaven, earth along with mankind. The Korean culture focuses on the aspect of harmony along with convergence and the Winter Olympics brought out these key factors. The sequence of events that was going to be unfurled was carefully thought out and the Ancient Bell of Peace helped in bringing peace to the land of Korea. Advances have been made in relation to venue infrastructure and the promotional activities have started with the second phase of that of ticket selling (Weed et al. 2015). The President of the Organising Committee have said that listening to the feedback of the stakeholder will help in showcasing Korea in the form of a global leader in front of the rest of the world. The passion for the Olympic Games was displayed with the help of the Commission visit to that of Gangneung Olympic Park. Many students joined the delegation from that of near by Gangneung Haeram Middle school. The education programme of Pyeon Chang helped many fans in learning about the Olympic sport. The Pyeon Chang Organising Committee visited the Olympic Village that housed around 1000 athletes. The Olympic Villages will provide the tangible legacies and all the apartments have been sold for that of residential use (Wicker et al. 2017). The high speed train that was at Jinbu will help in providing transport option for the people who are coming from Seoul for the Olympic Games.

The representatives of National Olympic Committees along with International Federations were present on the site during the visit of the Coordinating Commission for providing feedback. This helped in ensuring that the Olympic Winter Games offered the spectators with the best kind of environment. The partners of The Olympic Games helped in supporting IOC along with POCOG for the successful staging of the Olympic Games (Nam et al. 2016). They helped in the process of delivering the adequate goods along with services and their contribution helped in expanding the Olympic movement. Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics contributed to economic revitalization with the help of job creation. It helped in the promotion of national strength and made a successful leap forward in the arena of politics along with economy (Sutherland, Lee and Park 2015). The Winter Olympics helped in balancing that of regional development by the upgradation of regional brand value. It helped in the expansion pertaining to Social Overhead Capital. It helped in the promotion of Inter-Korea reconciliation with the help of the Olympic movement. Collaboration coming from different level of Korean government along with Gangwon Province has helped in the delivery of the Paralympic Winter Games (Colombo and Richards 2017). The assistance of the International Olympic Committee which is comprised of volunteers can help in the building up of a better world with the help of sport.

The economic impact of Pyeongchang Winter Olympics 2018

Central characters in relation to the PyeonChang 2018 opening ceremony was the five children who were representative of the five elements of fire, water, metal, earth and wood. Bold colours in relation to the five elements was symbolic of the five Olympic rings (Masterman 2014). The opening ceremony began with the visual of an icebound cave whose stone cravings came magically to life. It helped in the depiction of Korean invention like that of turtle ship. The exhibiting of the mythical creatures like White Tiger and Blue Dragon showed the significance of these animals in the Korean culture (MacAloon 2016). The white light illuminating the entire stadium when the django drummers came to the centre of the stage helped in filling the stadium with a kind of pulsating rhythm. They then changed into the colours of that of the Korean flag. The flag of Republic of South Korea was borne by sports stars from that of the host country and it was handed over to a guard of honour who was dressed in bright Korean costume (Jones and Jones 2014). The flag was then transported outside of the stadium like that of a rainbow children choir. It was made up of children from that of multi-ethnic families and the performing of the national anthem was then carried out. This set the stage for the starting of the Athletes Parade and the flag of the National Olympic Committeees was decorated on the ice. As the tradition goes, Greek Olympic Committee was the first one to lead. The contingent comprised of two cross-country along with two Alpine skier. The Winter Olympics featured around 102 events within 15 sport disciplines. The different kinds of sports that were included was that of bobsleigh, figure-skating, sky-jumping and that of curling (Joo, Bae and Kassens-Noor 2017). There were some new events that were included that was those of freestyle skiing, big air snowboarding and mixed double curling. Soohorang is a white tiger who was the mascot of the Winter Olympics. White Tiger is symbolic of the guardian in relation to Korean culture (Emery, Kerr and Crabtree 2016).

The recommendations in relation to Pyeong Chang Winter Olympics can be on the arena of increasing the participation. Focus should be laid on the aspect of high-level competition and the important elements like learning and sharing should be retained. The setting of an Empowered Steering Committee can help in this regard that can help in driving the initiatives in relation to the Olympic Games. This body can help to ensure proper preparation in relation to the Olympic Games. This body should be given full financial autonomy so that it can properly control the different aspects in relation to the Olympic Games. A High Performance Director can be appointed who can work along with that of the Empowered Steering Committee (Park and Tae 2016). The success of these kind of event can pave the path for increasing the international prestige of the nation. The Youth Olympic games should be brought to the cities and the current candidature should be replaced with that of competitive dialogue approach.

Recommendations to enhance the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics

The former athletes should be provided with encouragement so that they return for coaching with the help of deputation from that of different organisations. The former athletes have got working knowledge and they can make use of it for enhancing the performance of the new players. These coaches have got experience and this helps them in the evaluation of the risk management within athletic environment. The risks can never be completely eliminated but being aware of the kind of risks that may arise can help the coaches in the arena of providing guidance to the players (Hanstad, Parent and Houlihan 2014). They can assess the sports facilities along with equipment that can help in the prevention of injury to the sports participants at the time of competition. Prioritization of sports science is an important aspect that can help in improving the quality of game of the Olympic Games. It can play a crucial role in assisting the High Performance Director. The coaches can deliver the right results by taking the help of sports science. It can help in ensuring that the sportspersons gain access to whatever is latest in the field of medicine, nutrition and anti-doping (Gold and Gold 2016). Sports Science can help in predicting the ability of an individual in relation to the sports world and it can offer help in individualization of the training programs.

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