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The Olympians

1. Today the olympic games or the Olympics happen ever four years and are held in a different contry each time.

   • Its an opportunity for them to compete agains the worlds other great sportsmen and women for Olympi medals.
     • olympic gold medels, whitch are given only to the winner or winner of each competition .
       • However, in order to understand the modern Olympics better, we munst return to the origin of the Olympic Games: Greece

2. For the ancinet Greeks, the Olympic Games represented the highest form of physical achievement.

   • The games were a mix of athletic skill and religion.
     • The Greek god Zeus.
       • The Olympics were also a time of political calm.
         • Athletes traveled form all over the ancient Greek world to compete in events in beautiful

3. According to legend, a runner named Coroebus

   • Was the first Olympic champion in 776 B.C.
     • Only men could compete in the races and they wore no shoes or clothes.
       • These races took place in fort of huge crowds of as many as 40,000 people.

4. Over the centuries, the Olympic Games developededed and changed, and the competitions became more serious.

   • These same rules aslo required participants to mantani a demanding training plan just before the games.
     • They had to train whith expert judgers for the 30 days before they competed.
       • They also started to include the pentathlon events.
         • Several of these activities are still recognizable today as parts of the moder-day decathlon or as individual events

5. Many of the individual sports that were includeb in the ancient pentathlon were basically the same as they are now

   • The long jump was slightly in the ancient Olympics
     • However, at that time, the jumpers held weights in their hands to give them more momentum.
       • The sport probably came directly from the skills that people used when they hunted animals.
         • They were pointed wooden sticks that were about the same height as a man.
           • This gave the throwers more power and accuray so they were able to throw greater distances.

6. The Palaestra was the ancient Greek wrestling and boxing training area.

   • Boxing matches in the ancient games had no time limits
     • Boxers wrapped pieces of leather around their wrists for support and fought as long as they could
       • Competitors were placed in just two categories: one for men and the other for boys.

7. Winning an event in the ancient Olympics was quite different from winning one in todays games .

   • The prize for winning was not a medal, but an olive wreath.
     • Many people in ancient Greece regarded Olympic champions as demigods, so they were thought to be especially great.
       • Unfortunatley, the Olympic Games weren t considered to be a special event by everyone.
         • In 393 A.D.
           • He decided that there would be no more festivals that were related to ancient religious figures.

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