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A Gift Of Peace From The Past,

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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