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The ceremony of opening and closing The Games Olympic opening and closing ceremonies are a time when the eyes of the world focus on the host country. Professor Helen Gilbert from Royal Holloway, University of London has looked at the history of these ceremonies, what they have said about the host country and what they sought to display to the world. In particular, Professor Gilbert has researched the complexities of Aboriginal and native people’s participation in opening and closing ceremonies in Canada, Australia and the United States, and the difficulty in translating cultural traditions for a vast media audience. She has found that although the host country ideally wants to display a united front to the world, many indigenous people’s performances in Olympic ceremonies have subtly highlighted particular concerns and contradictions. Professor Gilbert now hopes to chart these historic messages by looking at specific Olympic performances in ceremonies across the past 35 years in her work funded by the European Research Council. “The Olympic ‘spirit’ promotes utopian notions of a ‘common humanity’ that asks us to put personal and political tensions aside”, Professor Gilbert says. “Amid this celebration of global communitas, rigid formulas for Games ceremonies govern what can be said and shown. Nevertheless, key issues in the cultural politics of host nations are often writ large on the global stage during Games ceremonies, and they are certainly under tremendous scrutiny.” Vancouver Winter Olympics Games 2010 “Although the host country ideally wants to display a united front to the world, many indigenous people’s performances in Olympic ceremonies have subtly highlighted particular concerns.” 54 SECTION FIVE : THE GAMES: past, present and future
Modern Pentathlon celebrates its centenary 2012 will be an extra special year for one sport which will celebrate 100 years as an Olympic event. Modern Pentathlon was created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, one of the founders of the modem Olympic Games and made its debut at the Stockholm Games in 1912. It was De Coubertin’s admiration for the ancient pentathlon, where pentathletes compete in the discus, javelin, jumping, running and wrestling, which led him to create the modern version in which competitors’ master the five sports of show-jumping, shooting, fencing, swimming and cross-country running. The University of Bath has produced all four of modern pentathlon’s GB medallists since 2000, the year when women were first able to compete, when Steph Cook and Kate Allenby achieved gold and bronze for Team GB. SECTION FIVE : THE GAMES: past, present and future 55
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