Ancient Greek Olympics In Today's Culture

The Olympic games are important in today's culture. Athletes train their whole lives to compete in the games. Many TV stations cover the Olympics. People from all over the world come to see them. The Olympics in Ancient Greece were much different than this.
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The Ancient Greek Olympics were held at Olympia, Elis ("Ancient Olympic..."). The first Ancient Greek Olympics started in 776 BC ("Games..."). The modern events were short events. Events were different from modern events ("Ancient Olympic..."). The Ancient Greek
Olympics was originally a religious festival. An event called the Chariot race was the opening event in Olympia ("Olympism"). The Ancient Greece Olympics started as footrace events. The
Ancient Greek Olympics was a series of
competition events ("Games..."). Athletes had to go to
Olympia a month before the olympics to train ("Olympism"). Some events were javelin, wrestling, and footraces ("Games..."). Greek men had to speak Greek to compete in the Ancient
Olympics.
B. Pentathlon was five different events such as jumping, wrestling, running, javelin, and discus ("The Sports..."). Athletes used weights made of lead or stone to help see how far they could jump. In the event of running, athletes would race on foot. Athletes ran 600 olympic feet across a stadium ("The Olympic..."). They would run with armor on during hoplite races which