March 8 is the international day, and on this day the IOC announce the theme for women competing in the Olympics game next year will be “Together Stronger: The future of Sport” . According to the article, women in sport have continue to enjoy steadily increase over the past decades, and will continue to do so in the 2012 Olympic games in London. The women’s participation in the Olympic games have increased from 23 percent in the 1984 Olympics games in Los Angeles to 43 percent in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and for the first time in history, the 2012 Olympics will be the first Olympic games with women competing in every single game in the Olympic program in history. I think what they wrote in this article was phenomenal, because now I can truly relate to how hard women struggled in terms of participating in the Olympic games and compete from the “Dare to Compete” video we watched in class, and now for the first time women is finally able to participate in the Olympics equally as men in terms of events competing. And it will be interesting to see how women in sports will continue to progress (because I am sure there is always more room for progression) in the near future.
Reynold Liang
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reference: http://www.latimes.com/la-sp-0306-plaschke-20110306,0,5257560,full.column
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