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The Olympic Games
The Olympics Begin in Ancient Greece
The first written records of the ancient Olympic Games date to 776 B.C.
A cook named Coroebus won a 192-meter footrace called the stade
He become the first Olympic champion
Legend has it that Heracles and Alcmene founded the Games,
By the end of the 6th century B.C had become the most famous of all Greek sporting festivals.
The ancient Olympics were held every four years
The Games were named for their location at Olympia
After 13 Olympiads, two more races joined the stade as Olympic events: the diaulos
The pentathlon consisting of five events: a foot race, a long jump, discus and javelin throws and a wrestling match.
The Olympic Games was initially limited to freeborn male citizens of Greece
The Olympics Through the Years
The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896.
King Georgios I welcomed 280 participants from 12 nations.
The official symbol of the modern Games is five interlocking colored rings.
The Olympic flag, featuring this symbol on a white background, flew for the first time at the Antwerp Games in 1920.
The Olympics truly took off as an international sporting event after 1924, when the VIII Games were held in Paris.
Decline and Revival of the Olympic Tradition
After the Roman Empire conquered Greece in the mid-2nd century B.C. ,the Games continued, but their standards and quality declined
In A.D. 393,a Christian, called for a ban on all “pagan” festivals ending the ancient Olympic tradition after nearly 12 centuries.
Baron Pierre de Coubertin became inspired by the idea of creating a modern Olympic Games after visiting the ancient Olympic site.
Coubertin proposed the idea of reviving the Olympics as an international athletic competition held every four years