KINE 3440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Li Hongzhi, Usain Bolt, Falun Gong

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 3440
• Professor: Hernan Humana

Document Summary

Lecture 19, 2008 beijing olympics & 2012 london olympics. 1948 olympics: germany and japan were not allowed to come. He lost his right arm and started shooting with his left arm. 1952 helinsinki games, soviet union asked to be placed in a separate part of the olympic village. The construction during these games had a lot of human rights violations because if china needed space for the olympics and there was someones house there, they would just mow it down. There was also very limited internet access for the journalists there: journalists were not allowed to go to certain areas, and were limited in what they could record. Pollution was also very bad during this time in beijing. Tibet was an area that was facing massive repression from china, and during the games some athletes said they wouldn"t come because of this. Li hongzhi was the leader of the falun gong: he was against homosexuality.