The Olympic Games

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The Olympic Games

• By Madi

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How it all started

• The Ancient Greek Olympics were a lot different
  than our Olympics now-a-days.
• The only people who were allowed to compete were
  men who could speak Greek.
• Once a girl got caught watching the male
  Olympics . But she didnt get arrested because
  her father was a famous boxer .
• Also there were fewer games such as different
  types of realising ???

The first Olympics games are usually given the
start year of 776 BC but they probably began even
sooner. The ancient Greeks loved competitions ,
especially sporting competitions. The Olympics
were not the only games held in ancient Greece,
but they were the most popular.   
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How it all started

• ! The following is a humorous look at five
  ancient Greek city-states. In truth, the Greeks
  did take the games quite seriously. Nearly all
  the ancient Greek cities sent teams to
  participate in the ancient Greek Olympics. If two
  or more Greek city-states happen to be at war
  with each other when the game date arrived, war
  was halted for the duration of the
  games. Everyone wanted their city-state to win

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How it all started

• Once every four years, men from all over Greece
  came to compete in a great athletic festival in
  Elis, in western Greece (Women were not allowed
  to compete). This was called the Olympic games
  because the place was called Olympia. It was a
  religious festival to honour the Greek gods Zeus
  and Hera.

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