john sr
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it has never been banned
No.
The Ancient Olympics in Greece were held from 776 BC to 393 AD, when they were banned by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I in an effort to suppress pagan festivals.
In the Ancient Olympics the punishment was to pay for the construction of a statue of Zeus (for whose honour the Olympics were held). And there must ave been a fair bit of cheating around because they were a lot of statues of Zeus at Olympia... In the Modern Olympics you get banned and stripped of your medals (which probably applied to the Ancient Olympians as well, but I don't know for certain).
On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
Theodosius I, Emperor of the Roman Empire, banned the Olympics in 393 AD. The next time the Olympics were held was in 1896.
The country Iraq was banned from the Olympics in the year of 2008.
In the Ancient Olympics the competitors were nude.
they ancient Olympics begun to honor their gods
The Olympics is an Ancient Greek festival.
the diffrence between modern and ancient olympics is that it was not as safe and many were killed in ancient olympics
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