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The Olympic Games
The Olympic Begin in Ancient Greece
Which by the end of the 6th century B.C. had become the most famous of all Greek sporting festivals.
The ancient Olympics were named for their location at Olympic.
Legend has it that Heracles and the mortal woman Alcmena, found the Games.
After 13 Olympiads, two more races joined the stade as Olympic events : the dolichols.
He become the first Olympic champion.
The first written records of the ancient Olympic Game date to 776 B.C.
A cook named Coroebus won a1992-meter footrace called the stade.
The pentathlon consisting of five events a foot race, a long jump, discus and javelin throws and wresting match.
The Olympic Game was initially limited to freebon male citizens of Greece.
The Olympic Through the Years
The first modern Olympics were help in Athens, Greece in 1896 .
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.
King Georgios I welcomed 280 participants from 12 nations.
The Olympic truly took off as an international sporting event after 1924, when the VII Game were held in Paris.
Decline and Revival of the Olympic Tradition
In A.D. 393 , a Christian, called for a ban on all “pagan” festivals, ending the ancient Olympic tradition after nedrly 12 centuries.
After the Roman Empire conquered Greece in the mid-2nd century B.C. , the Games continued, but their standards and quality declined.
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 Olympic as an international athletic competition held every four years.