The longest race is the 50 KM Racewalk. It will be contested on Sat. Aug 11, and starts at 9:00 London time.
776 BC.
Every modern Olympic Games has been run in metres, the first was in 1896.
The first event of the first Winter Olympics (1924) was the 500 meter speed skating race, won by US skater Charles Jewtraw.
A very, very long race. It would require a long training period.
a very long running ace is a long race that is what they call it
A very long race is a marathon, but it doesn't rhyme with dawn.
To the most specific information about sprinting it has been in the Olympic games from the very beggining to the latest Olympic game held (London, England 2012)
The only event at the very first (classical) Olympic games was the Stadion foot race. A Stadion was about 200m, and women were not allowed to compete, so it would be fair to say that the Men's 200m is the oldest ongoing Olympic event, and therefore Athletics the oldest ongoing Olympic Sport.
http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-schedule-results/this page mite be very helpful on the many games at olympic upcoming 2010 schedule
It was in 770 B.C
Very Long Jump
it means that the Olympic flag has some very diffiicut races