11/11/21
Ancient Olympics was a man's-only sport. Training was strictly controlled by private investors. Modern Olympic training, including both men and women, is individually financed and conducted.
Tags - Olympic Training
22/09/21
Participation in the Ancient Olympics was limited to free Greek male amateur sportsmen (Herodotus V.22.2
. Non-Greeks, slaves, people accused of murder or blasphemy, and women (with some rare exceptions), were not allowed to compete.
However, these regulations did not put off scores of people from flocking to Olympia to watch the Games, travelling from all over the Greek city-states and colonies as far afield as Africa and the Iberian Peninsula. At its height, the Ancient Olympic festival probably hosted over forty thousand people.
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/health/sport-and-fitness/the-ancient-olympics-bridging-past-and-present/content-section-2
Tags - Olympic Tradition, Ancient World Games, Ancient Olympics
08/09/21
The London 2012 theme of ‘truce’ echoed the Ancient Olympic tradition of ekecheiria (sacred peace); Classical ideals of equality and self-improvement still motivates athletes to compete fairly and push themselves to the limit
Tags - Ancient World Games, Ancient Olympics, Modern Olympics, Olympic Tradition
23/08/21
Despite many differences, we are experiencing the irony of parallels between Ancient and Modern Olympics. While our recent Modern Olympics had to struggle with the safety challenges of covid-19, the site of Ancient Olympics is threatened with raging wildfires now threatening the Olympic Academy in ancient Olympia, in western Greece. https://www.politico.eu/article/greece-wildfires-august-2021-crisis-evia/?aid=app_feed&utm_source=pocket_mylist
Tags - covid-19, Modern Olympics, Ancient Olympics, fire
12/08/21
A series of underlying principles and values inherited from Ancient Greece are still central to the modern Olympic spirit. For example, the London 2012 theme of ‘truce’ echoed the Ancient Olympic tradition of ekecheiria (sacred peace)
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/health/sport-and-fitness/the-ancient-olympics-bridging-past-and-present/content-section-0?intro=1
Tags - Ancient Olympics, Modern Olympics
07/08/21
Ancient Olympics dress code (only men were allowed to compete) was in the raw. Marriageable women were not allowed to attend the Ancient games. Modern Olympics still has controversial issues of dress (some female athletes protest bikini requirements), resulting in fines.
Tags - Dress Code, Gender
