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__Original Olympics in Ancient Greece__ By: Maddie LeBeck and Abby Dasbach

The Greek Olympics starts with a one day festival with athletics and wrestling, but then in 472 BC it was five days long. The first day of the festival was all about to sacrifice. The second day was a foot race. There are four different types of foot races; the Stadion, 2-Stade race, Long-Distance run and the 2-4 Stade race.The other days there was either wrestling, boxing, or the pancratium. Those days they would do two of the three choices. Finally there was horse racing which included chariot racing and a race with cart that was pulled by two mules and had to race twelve laps.

In ancient Greece, the original Olympics were held in honour of all the gods. The first of the games was held in about early 700 B.C. in a special honour of the main god, Zeus. The most famous of the games was in Olympia, south-west of Greece, taking place every 4 years. The Olympics were then named after the city-state. Although the Olympics were a time of uniting city -states, woman couldn’t participate or watch these games, or they would be sentenced to death. Young, healthy men participated, and thought they would please the gods by doing so. Everyone took games seriously, the physical events most of all. The sacred truce was a part of the games and was used for competers promising to be safe as they travel to the games. [] [] [] []

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