The Olympic Games: Cheers and Tears

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Dates: December 16, 2024
Meets: M from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
 Location: Bozeman, MT - Museum of the Rockies
Cost:  $0.00

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Date Day Time
12/16/2024Monday3 PM to 5 PM

Please note: This course program requires membership in a 2024-2025 OLLI at MSU Membership

Description

This talk will cover the original Olympic Games held in Greece, their reintroduction in 1896 and the structure of the modern Olympics. Learn about spectacular Olympic stories through the years, including record-setting performances, scandals and the currently recurring issue of performance-enhancing drugs in athletic events.

Program Takeaways

  • An appreciation of the history of the world's major athletic occurrence, unquestionably the oldest occasion of display of human achievement.
  • An understanding of how human beings can indeed gather peacefully to compete on an athletic field and thus promote peace and cooperation throughout the world (The Olympic Ideal).
Fee:  $0.00

Bozeman, MT - Museum of the Rockies

600 West Kagy Blvd
Bozeman, Montana 59717

Don Demetriades

Don Demetriades has obtained his B.A. and master's degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and has taught undergraduate philosophy courses at Montana State University since 2001. He is also teaching at MSU's Honors College, where he has introduced and teaches a new course on the Philosophy of Sports. He holds the U.S. record for the 50-mile run for those aged 50 or older and is researching the history of the Olympic Games.

Tony Demetriades

Anthony Demetriades obtained his A.B. degree from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, a master's degree in physics from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and his Ph.D. in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California. He spent sixteen years in the aerospace industry, then taught engineering at Montana State University from 1979 until his retirement in 1995. In the last few years, he has made several OLLI presentations, both as courses and in the OLLI Speaker series on historical subjects.