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Ice hockey as a symbol of national identity: the Czech society 20 years after the Nagano triumph
Burdová, Karolína ; Numerato, Dino (advisor) ; Wladyniak, Ludmila Maria (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the process of building national identity through sport, specifically ice hockey. The thesis focuses primarily on the aspects contributing to the reproduction of the Czech national identity. Important aspects are mainly symbols, which remind us of the individual's belonging to the nation, as well as the media, which significantly help to the mythization of sports events. One of the events that played an important role in the formation of the Czech national identity is the 1998 Nagano Olympics. The success of the Czech hockey team in this tournament made part of the history twenty years ago; there are still many legacies of this triumph nowadays. The thesis is based on a research that combined several methods. I obtained the data through participant observation of the national team matches broadcasts, I also analysed documents that referred to the legacies of Czech victory, and I carried out semi-structured interviews with ice hockey fans. The interviews suggest that the victory of the Nagano hockey players, with the contribution of the media and banal nationalism, underwent the process of mythization, and thus played a significant role in the Czech national identity building.
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Doping at top worlds athletics competitions in the 21st century
Suchý, Aleš ; Hrabinec, Jiří (advisor) ; Dlouhý, Martin (referee)
This diploma thesis investigates the extent to which athletes competing in 21st century world athletic competitions, ie OH and MS in athletics, violated anti-doping rules. The main aim is to find out which disciplines at the world's top athletics competitions, ie World Championships in Athletics and the Olympic Games, most frequently appeared in the 21st Century of Doping, and from which countries were athletes who contributed most to the use of doping. The secondary objective is to find out which prohibited substances or methods were most used in the athletic world competitions under study.
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The GDR and FRG olympic team at the Olympic games in Melbourne 1956
Veselková, Ivana ; Pešek, Jiří (advisor) ; Dimitrov, Michal (referee)
Diploma thesis "The GDR and FRG olympic team at the Olympic games in Melbourne in 1956" describes the process of making the united german team, which has begun in 1955 and which was . Thesis deals with the mutual negotiations of both olympic teams and also describes the goals, which the sport officials and politics were trying to reach during the whole process of making the united team. The next part of the thesis deals with the real experience with the united german team at the summer olympic games in Melbourne in 1956 and also tries to answer the question, whether in reality this united german team was not more or less just two autonomous teams, which only had a few visible symbolic things such as clothes and flag together.
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Development of individual swimming styles from the first modern Olympic Games to the present
Kulhánek, Jakub ; Svobodová, Irena (advisor) ; Hrabinec, Jiří (referee)
The aim is to map the development of techniques of swimming for the period from 1896 to the present. The work will also outline changes to the rules swimming. Key words swimming styles, breast, crawl, backstroke, dolphin swimmer, Olympic games, development, rules of swimming
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The marketing research of popularity of WOG Sochi 2014
Zvelebilová, Kateřina ; Voráček, Josef (advisor) ; Štědroň, Bohumír (referee)
Title: The marketing research of popularity of WOG Sochi 2014 Objectives: The main objective of this thesis is to determinate the popularity of the WOG Sochi 2014 amongst Czech visitors of these games. Methods: I used the quantitative method of collecting primary data in this thesis. I used the method of personal interviews with using a questionnaire. The compiled questionnaire was distributed by myself to Czech visitors of WOG Sochi 2014 in place of Czech olympic house. The research lasted approximately two weeks and the results were then processed by the computer technology. Results: I have discovered that the WOG Sochi 2014 are very popular among Czech visitors. Research was attended by 200 individuals of whom 182 respondents completed the questionnaire. The results show that WOG Sochi 2014 were attended mainly by Czech visitors between the ages 36 - 45 who are interested in sport and Olympic Games. WOG Sochi 2014 met the expectatiton of all respondents and the respondents would recommend visit Olympics to many other people. Key words: survey, marketing research, Olympic games, WOG Sochi 2014, popularity
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China in the Czech Press: Comparing Representations of Authoritarian Political System in Democratic Media System
Kaliba, Jan ; Reifová, Irena (advisor) ; Křeček, Jan (referee)
Diploma thesis "China in the Czech Press: Comparing Representations of Authoritarian Political System in Democratic Media System" uses qualitative content analysis to examine attributes ascribed to China by selected Czech mainstream newspapers in selected periods, systematizing and categorizing the findings into instituted categories. The analysis serves as a basis for answering the key question: How media representations of political and social system - which is unacceptable in the system where the media work - can be ideologically adapted? Brief insight into history and contemporary problems of China and interpretation of the term "ideology" based on description of the development of this term firstly in its negative definition of Marxist line stay before presentation of results of the qualitative research. The thesis includes also extensive part full of graphical supplements which denote image of China in discourse of dailies Lidové noviny and Právo in five selected periods. It allows easy comparison of separate partial discourses, so distinctions among the partial images of China are well discoverable.
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Media image of China in Czech daily newspapers in the year of holding the 2008 Summer Olympic Games
Janecká, Petra ; Trampota, Tomáš (advisor) ; Křeček, Jan (referee)
Diploma thesis "Media image of China in Czech daily newspapers in the year of holding the 2008 Summer Olympic Games" tries to capture a media image of China in Czech daily newspapers represented by MF Dnes, Pravo and Hospodarske noviny. The analysed time period is the whole year 2008, the year of the Summer Olympic Games in Peking, when China got even into the biggest interest of media. The method of the diploma thesis is to examine chosen articles with quantitative content analysis which tries to answer the questions regarding the thematic agenda of the newspapers connected to China, originality of the stories or the positive or negative character of the articles in general. Last but not least the analysis takes into account the phenomenon of Olympic Games and the tense events around them which also brought its part of articles and topics. As the analysis deals with a trio of newspapers with various reader's profiles, it focuses on differences among them too.
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Olympic games in France in the 20th century
Urešová, Karolina ; Klinka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kalfiřtová, Eva (referee)
This thesis deals with the Olympic Games, which took place in France. At the same time, it briefly focuses on the ancient Olympic Games and focuses on the historical context of those modern games. It also deals in detail with the Summer Olympic Games, which took place in 1900 and 1924, and the Winter Games, which took place in 1924, 1968 and 1992. It focuses on the historical context of these games, the disciplines/competitions and the participants, which arrived at specific games. It also deals with the winners of individual disciplines. At the end of each chapter, it discusses the results of French and Czech or Czechoslovak athletes at the Olympic Games in France. Finally, it deals with the best Czech or Czechoslovakian and French athletes at all games. It is based on available book publications, databases, documents and results published by the International Olympic Committee. Keywords: Olympic Games, olympic sports, athletes
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Enviromental Impact of Winter Olympic Games
Podloucký, Josef ; Parry Martínková, Irena (advisor) ; Kolář, František (referee)
Title: Environmental Impact of Olympic Winter Games Objectives: The objective of my bachelor thesis is to evaluate the impact of Olympic Winter Games (OWG) on the environment and vice versa. The work is divided into three parts. The first part has a goal to reflect the development of OG and of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) strategies to sustainable and ecological OWG. The second part is more of natural science account climate development and the use of technologies and their impact on nature. The last part aims to suggest several possible scenarios about future development of OWG. Methods: In the bachelor thesis basic methods of theoretical work are employed, i.e. compilation methods, analysis and synthesis. The employed methods are described in more detail in the Methodology chapter. Results: The result is a research work evaluating the IOC's attitude to climate change and environmental devastation and the impact of climate change on OWG. The evaluation was carried out on the basis of the IOC regulations and a study of expert articles on the ecological demands of winter sports. The conclusion of the thesis offers possible scenarios about the future of the Olympic Games.
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An overview of the performance of men and women in the discipline of the 100 m freestyle at the Olympics from 1924 to 2016
Michalcová, Naďa ; Jurák, Daniel (advisor) ; Miler, Tomáš (referee)
Name: An overview of the performance of men and women in the discipline of the 100 m freestyle at the Olympics from 1924 to 2016. Aim: The first aim of the diploma thesis is to create a historical overview of the course of swimming competitions at the modern Olympics from 1924 to 2016. The second aim is to process personal profiles of male anf female swimmers at the first places in the discipline of the 100 m freestyle from 1924 to 2016. And the third aim is to compile a performanceoverview of all male and female finalists in the discipline of the 100 m freestyle after two always following Olympics from 1924 to 2016. Methods: The historical method was used in the search for sources of historical data in the development of swimming and the processing of individual Olympic Games. It consisted of analyzing historical facts, examining sources and creating an overview of developments. Based on the search and processing of individual performances, graphs were prepared and then the results were compared. Outcome: From the analysis of performance, we found that in the period from 1924 to 2016, men improved by 19%, which represents 11.42 s, and women by 27%, which is 19.70 s. The results of the research show that the development of men's performance slowed down while women's performance is still improving....
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