Quest is the UK Quality Scheme for Sport and Leisure. Quest is a tool for constant improvement. It was designed generally for the management of leisure facilities and leisure development. Quest characterises industry standards and good practice and encourages their on-going development and delivery within a customer focused management framework Dudley Council is a local area organisation. It is responsible for the local facilities such as keeping football pitches that are available to hire in good condition.
Athletes will play on a beautiful and desirable surface. In effect they will be able to focus on the game at hand rather than poor field conditions allowing them to demonstrate their skills. Fans will love that for that is what they have paid and supported
2.4.1.2 Mechanism for funding green space this section explores what ways parks are generating income for their maintenance and development around the UK because of increasing pressures on the public purse, parks will need to find new ways of raising income so based on CABE’s report there are eight ways to ‘Pay for Parks’: (Published by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE Space), 2006.) Traditional local authority funding; in England, the green spaces are funded from authority general revenues budget financed by local taxation and/or government transfers based on annual basis based on decision- making that the distribution of the budget is decided by politicians elected to the council. Multi-agency public sector funding
In fact, Park Hydro Quebec is well recognized in the field of eco- landscape design. It is the first project in Québec to receive a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design New Construction Platinum status, which credits the outstanding designs of sustainable park. Now, the park has replaced the previous the city’s asphalt and concrete surfacing with green space (Fig. 2), it is accepted by the neighborhood as a social gathering place and a space for communal events. Also, it refines a space in the city to create a nature like feeling comparable to the forest and has raised the living standards of the public. Most importantly, the entire park is operating ecologically and has maximized the ecological sustainable function.
Over the years, the political stage of the Olympic Games has grown, from the first Games in 1896 to the modern era. As the world grew and became more sophisticated, so did the games and the use of athletes to promote political agendas. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a well known name in the Olympic world, would be the person to gather what he called delegates, which Coubertin would eventually name the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It is in that meeting where the delegates decided that the host city would be Athens, because it is believed that the people of Athens held the first ancient Games. With the plans for an Olympic Games to happen in Athens, in 1896, Coubertin and the IOC worked together to make sure they had a successful Games.
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Olympic, so called the festival of Earth is an international sporting competition, total 206 nations and 10,000 players participated. Recent Olympic game was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. However, unfortunately this game assesses as the worst Olympic. Most of the stadium that was built for the game is not in available condition anymore, because Brazil could not provide care and money to maintain these stadiums due to the internal situation of Brazil. By thoughtless development nature of the land is getting damaged by abandoned building.
An example of a modern world connection of which relates back to Delphi is the Olympics since the modern day Olympics are a multi sport event taking place every fourth year. A huge range of sports are offered in the modern day Olympics from Swimming to volleyball etc. Olympics in the past were known as the Pythian games. The Pythian Games lasted 6 to 8 days and included not only sports but also music, poetry and drama contests and also played every 4 years. The Pythian Games were the predecessor to the Olympic Games.
Centuries ago, the first Olympic Games were held. On 776 BC, men gather together to compete in a series of games to honor the Greek God, Zeus. These games began in the city of Olympia. There were five different games the men could compete in to honor their very important God. Some of these games included jumping, discus, wrestling, boxing, and horse riding.
Jeremy Emanuel Physical Education written task 1. Yes I do think sporting events contribute to unifying a nation because it brings people of different races, religions, ages, different towns and provinces together in order to host a sporting event, such as the 2010 FIFA world cup. Also, everyone comes together to celebrate an individual’success whilst that individual is representing their country, athletes like chad le Clos. A prime example of a sporting event unifying a nation is the rugby world cup in 1995; where Mandela handed the trophy over to Francois Pienaar ultimately breaking the racial boundaries brought by the apartheid and unifying the country.
Assignment 2 task 2 London Olympics 2012: In 2005, the reconstruction of East London was at the heart of the bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The London 2012 Games and the development of the Olympic Park would be a catalyst for the regeneration of the Lower Lee Valley. This is an area of complex regeneration challenges at the heart of some of the UK’s most deprived communities. Producing the Games has provided an important boost to the UK economy, helping to counter the effects of the economic drop.
Is It Worth It?: Analyzing the Costs and Benefits of Hosting the Olympic Games It's a gorgeous early August day. You just want to be outside, regardless of what you are doing. Are you?
Abandoned Olympic venues decay despite promises to restore them in Rio. (Drehs and Lajolo 2). In Pyeongchang, 58,000 trees in a virgin forest were removed (McCurry 3). Even though cities bid millions to host the Olympics, hosting the Olympics produces negative impacts on the overall economy, the development of the city, and the environment of the host city and its surrounding areas; thus, all these effects indicate that the Olympics may not be worth hosting.
Assignment 6-Ancient History The ancient Olympics also known as the site of Olympia is where the world’s first Olympic Games were played. The site informs us about the ancient Olympic Games, their role in politics and religion and how the site reinforced an elite, wealthy male cliché. The Olympic Games were closely linked to the religious festivals of the cult of Zeus, but were not an important part of a ceremony.
From walking your dog, to playing with your kids, the park is the perfect place for endless outdoor activities and events. The park is a door to escape the harshness of the world and return to reality with a new mind set on the world. Most public parks offer amazing sceneries of nature from plants and trees to wildlife. The presence of nature warms my heart bringing relaxation and peace upon my body and
