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The modern Olympic Games are the leading international sporting event nowadays. However, there are constant voices to call for stopping the Olympic Games. The followings are opinions on whether we should abolish the Olympics from different media. Read them carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the arguments on both sides; 2. give your comment. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.http://camilla.com.au/ The Olympic charter’s call for a “peaceful society” and the “preservation of human dignity” is a very noble one, but its means are rather odd. Through fierce athletic competition between nations, individual rivalries between athletes, who, training for 75% of their waking life, probably play a very little role in their society anyway. The Olympics is an arena for individual achievement: however, if someone is to win a race, others must lose. Emphasis is not placed on athletes improving their personal best but on who wins. Having many nations come together shows worldwide solidarity, but it is a strange sort of solidarity, nations united by their athletes in Lycra and branded shoes. The cultures of nations are shown by little more than flag waving and the appearance of their mascots.The Guardian The original “spirit” of the Olympics was supposedly that of sporting competition between amateurs who competed for the honor of doing so, and to test themselves against the best sportspeople from around the world. However, the Olympics has become ever more commercialized, high-jacked by corporations and turned into a giant advertising hoarding. The kinds of moneys and rewards potentially available from excelling on the international stage has served to incentivise not only professionalization, also corruption and cheating. The professed aspirations of the Olympic movement and the grubby reality of the contemporary Olympics are now utterly opposed.The New York Times Citizens of the host city, often uninterested in the Olympic spectacle, can end up having to foot the bill by paying extra taxes, or having their existing taxes routed away from other services. The construction of Olympic facilities, company investment and the regeneration of areas in host cities can be very disruptive, pricing local residents and shopkeepers out of their areas. Building an Olympic site can necessitate the demolition of homes and historical places. Previous Olympics have shown that Olympic resources, when the games are over, do not always benefit the host city or society. Olympic sites can become ghost towns, so characteristic of the year they were built in as to be aesthetically odd, impractical, inhospitable and unfashionable a decade later.TIME The athletes competing in the Olympic games have worked hard for years, showing dedication to achieving physical greatness. They keep to a strict diet, and put in hundreds of hours training in a week, all for the honor of competing against the best athletes in the world. Those that are caught cheating are dealt with harshly, which teaches against honesty and dedication to one’s dreams. Athletes dedicate the best part of their lives to this ideal, by constantly improving their performance. Individual performance stands here for “celebration of collective values”—including that of fair competition. Individual athletes represent whole nations—their competing actualizes transnational togetherness and the search for commonality and global cooperation. Above all, the Olympic spirit is a beacon of hope. Countless times the games have instilled hope and togetherness in many. In a world of growling animosity, it is encouraging to see a sense of peace and togetherness gather every four years.
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The Olympic Games Shouldn’t Be Abolished There are different voices about whether the modern Olympic Games should be abolished. As the article covered on The Guardian,the modern Olympic Games are highly commercialized, prohibitively costly, and void of social benefits. So these people think that this global event should better be cancelled. On the other hand, the Olympic Games advocate world peace, friendship and hope, media like TIME believes that it is of great significance to hold Olympic Games. As a huge sports fan, I am strongly against the idea of abolishing this global sports gala.
The movement should have its own place in the international community mainly for three reasons. Firstly, the Olympic Games provide an international arena for players from all over the world to compete with each other, show human talents and challenge physical limit. Through participating in the Olympic Games, people break more and more records. It is someone’s dream to win an Olympic medal after years of training and whenever we meet problems, we will draw upon the spirit of “faster, higher and stronger”. Besides, the Games can also promote mutual communication between different countries. Thirdly, the influx of foreign visitors would greatly facilitate the development of the economy in the host city and in order to make the full use of Olympic facilities, we are building more practical facilities.
In conclusion, we humanity would suffer a great loss if modern Olympic Games be abolished. As for some fixable issues, such as resources wasting, we are figuring out ways to deal with that with the help of modern technology. It is unwise to throw the baby out with the bath water. The Olympic Games are a vital platform for us to excel ourselves and forge abounds cross national borders.
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本篇文章就是否应该取消奥运会展开讨论，文章共涉及四家媒体的看法，其中前一则报道认为应该取消奥运会，最后一则报道则认可奥运会的存在价值。根据题目的要求，考生可采取以下的布局：
第一段：总结新闻报道涉及的主要观点，并说明理由，如取消奥运会主要是考虑到奥运变得越来越商业化，且成本高、社会效益低等，而支持奥运会则是认为奥运给人带来希望，有助于世界和平；提出个人见解，即奥运会不应被取消。
第二段：指出奥运会两个重要贡献。其一，奥运会是重要平台，展示人类无尽的才能与潜力；其二，奥运会能够促进各过交流；第三，奥运会能在一定程度上促进主办国经济发展。
第三段：总结全文，奥运会在当今世界仍然有着重要的作用。
