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Most of the sports that the ancient Greek people played were included in the ancient Olympics. Only free Greek men who spoke Greek were able to participate and spectate the ancient Olympic games.

Some of the games were:

Running

Discus throwing

Javelin Throwing

Wrestling

Boxing

Pankration

Chariot Racing Horse Riding

Hurtels

Running Long Jump

Racing by Foot

There were also some more brutal sports including wrestling to the death witch everything was allowed except eye gouging biting and pinching They also included Sword fighting and archery contests.

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Olympics. The games were boxing, Weightlifting and the pentathalon. The pentathalon consisted of discus, long jump, running, wrestling and javelin and chariot racing.

Additionally there was a sort of mixed Martial Arts event, pankration (from: pas, all; kratos, power; παγκράτιον), in which the winner was the person who got their opponent closest to death without killing him. Interestingly enough, the technique was used by Spartans on the battlefield, and so they were precluded from competing against non-Spartans in such an event. Check out the Wikipedia article on it, it is, for the most part, accurate.
Running, Boxing, Discus, Javelin, Long Jump

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Some sports are Golf, tennis, Greek Olympics, and marathons.

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disk throwing, throwing spears, lifting weights, the long jump, hockey based game, wrestling, boxing, fighting chickens or quails, and chariot racing

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chariot racing, akiko, jockeys race, running races, wrestling, discus etc

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Ancient Greeks had sports such as running, wrestling, throwing a discus or javelin, and boxing.

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* chariot racing * jockeys race * boxing * pentathlon (running,long jump,discus,javilin and werstiling) * running races

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Ancient Greeks were very serious about sports.

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boxing, weightlifting and the pentathalon

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