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World Games The Legacy

Ancient World Games

Ancient Olympics Athletes

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Participation in the Ancient Olympics was limited to free Greek male amateur sportsmen (Herodotus V.22.2 Winking. 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

Classical Ancient Olympics ideas persists in Modern Olympics themes

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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

Ancient Games Origin

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Ancient Olympics

The original site remains, Olympia, Greece. The ancient Olympic Games began in the year 776 BC, when Koroibos, a cook from the nearby city of Elis, won the stadion race, a foot race 600 feet long. https://www.penn.museum/sites/olympics/olympicorigins.shtml

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