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Since 1896, the year the Olympics were resurrected from ancient

history, the Olympics have been a symbol of the camaraderie and harmony

possible on a global scale. The gathering of athletic representatives,

the pride of the pack, from participating governments, even throughout

the recent Cold War period, is proof that world unity is possible; just

as it was in Ancient Greece with the polis or city-states.



Olympic Games were held throughout Ancient Greece, but the most famous

are the games that were held in Olympia in honor of Zeus every four

years from August 6th to September 19th. The first record of these

games is of one Coroebus of Elis, a cook, winning a sprint race in 776

BC. Most historians believe the games to have been going on for

approximately 500 years before this. In the year Coroebus was made a

part of history, there was apparently only one simple event, a race

called the stade. The track was said to be one stade long or roughly

210 yards.......

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