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Pet Games 1964:
City Planning. The concept of city planning came late to Japan, and a real attack upon Tokyo's problems awaited the preparations for the 1964 Olympic Games. Plans were made well in advance, under the direction of the national and metropolitan governments. In the period im¬mediately preceding the Olympics, the city under¬took public improvement projects costing more than $2 billion. Much of the program was com¬pleted before the games began in October 1964.Held every fourth year, the Olympic Games present the world's most important athletic con¬tests. Amateur athletes of many nations compet games 1964e in a wide variety of sports divided into Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games. The Games are held each time in a different city of the world.
See Also Pet Games Ncing:
In the way of practical help, suggest games that could be played at home (e.g. word bingo or a cloze game where children fill in missing words or phrases), explaining the particular value of games to a child with reading problems -namely that they're fun and so don't seem too much like hard work, and also that they have a useful repet games ncingitive, reinforcing function. When you recommend a game, try to explain just how it is designed to help. There are booklets and pamphlets available, which give ideas for games that can easily be made and played at home (e.g. Hip Pocket Spelling Games series, New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983).The IOC selects the sites and dates of Olym¬pic Games. The honor of playing host to the Games always goes to a city, not a country. The actual planning and organizing of the Games is then done by the national Olympic committee of the country of the host city. These duties are usually delegated to a special organizing committee, which then becomes responsible to the IOC. In¬ternational sports federations for each major sport send technical experts to the Games to make certain that the grounds, tracks, courses, and equipment meet the standards of the sport.
On The Other Hand See Pet Games Ination:
Although some winter sports were contested in Olympic Games before 1924, that year marked the first time that the Winter Olympic Games were held as a separate series. The Winter Games are staged in the same cal¬endar year as the Summer Games. They are num¬bered as they are held. The games at Grenoble, France, in 1968 were the 10th in the winter cycle. The number of contestants in the Winter Olym¬pics has grown considerably from 293 in 1924 to 1,272 in 1968. Thirty-seven nations were repre¬sented in the compet games inationition at Grenoble. The Winter Games have fewer sports than the summer compet games inationitions. Only seven winter sports have official Olympic recognition. They are speed skating, figure skating, skiing, the biathlon, luge (also called small sled or toboggan), bobsledding, and ice hockey.The USOC appoints games committees to se¬lect U.S. athletes for the Olympics. U.S. athletes compet games inatione in special tryouts conducted by the games committees in the various sports. Regard¬less of an athlete's past record, he cannot win a place on the Olympic team unless he earns the right in a tryout. Games committees also help raise funds to send their teams to the Games. Except for a small staft at national headquar¬ters in New York City, all work for the USOC is done on a voluntary basis. Officers, executives, coaches, and all others connected with the Olym¬pic team serve without pay.
