According to historical records, Olympic games have been held for about 3,000 years. The first recorded Olympics were held in Greece in 776 BC in honor of the god Zeus. It is believed, though, that the Games had been held for a long time before that.
Initially, there was only one event. It was a 192 meter footrace--an approximate 210 yard sprint.
The name "Olympics" was applied to the event because it was held on the sacred Greek site of Olympia.
The Games were banned in 393 A.D. as a "pagan cult", but revived in the late 19th Century (1800s) in Athens with 13 countries competing in 43 events.
the olympics
No. The Olympics were strictly a Greek festival.
honor of their gods
yes
The Greeks invented the Olympics in honour of their gods.
Although the Greeks did invent the Olympics, they do not own it. It is owned by the International Olympic Committee.
i say any sport in the Olympics since Greece stared the Olympics and they are an old country
The Olympics
They played standard sports.
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The Winter Olympics were first held in 1924 in the French resort of Chamonix and were imagined by Eugene Brunettea d'Usseaux (ITA) in 1911
Yes, the Greeks invented the Olympics and held tornaments in Olympus. Sports like archery, javelin throwing, wrestling. BTW they did it naked.