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Ancient Greek Olympics


Reporting today's Olympic games is like a technological masterpiece.
The athletes compete in many events, their times and scores are tallied and
sent worldwide by satellites and high-tech computers within seconds. Each event
is carefully watched and recorded with a sense of history. There was no such
sense of history or records when the first Games began in Ancient Greece.

The first recorded champion in Greece was a sprinter, Coroebus, he was
a cook in a near by Greek city called, Elis. He ran naked on a sanded course in
front of thousands of spectators. The course was about 630 feet long "or one
stad-from which the word stadium was derived." His victory won him a wreath of
olive leaves.

That was in 776 BC and this year became very important to later Greek
Historians. In 300 BC all time was dated by Olympiads, a time span of four years
between the games. The Olympiad began with the first recorded foot race.

As far back in Greek time as anyone can......

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