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The Olympic Festival started in 776 BC when a cook named Koroibos from neighboring town of Elis won a 600 ft foot race. He was the first recorded winner in the only athletic activity at the Olympics at the time. The date of 776 BC is from inscriptions found at Olympia. There is belief that the festival may have started prior to that year but nothing commonly accepted as truth. It is also believed that the participants were naked in the race but again nothing concrete that can be claimed as complete truth.
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∙ 7y agoThe ancient Olympics athletes names are not known to us today.
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abhinav bindra is the first Punjabi to win a medal in Olympics
Who won Ethiopia's first ever gold medal at the Olympics?
No one, Ethiopia has never won a gold at the olympics.
In what year was the first modern Olympics games held in Greece?
The first ever olympics were held in 776bc
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No but they did share their poems they made for the olympics when it was first created
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Did brazil ever enter the olympics?
NO
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Has Kelsey Serwa ever been to the Olympics?
no, her first olympics will be in 2014
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Yes, Alexandre Bilodeau became the first person to do so in 2010.
When did the Netherlands first enter the Olympics?
Netherlands first participated in the 1900 Games in Paris. Rowers Francois Brandt and Roelof Klein won Netherlands' first ever Olympic gold medal in coxed pairs.
Who is the first ever Punjabi to win medal in Olympics?
abhinav bindra is the first Punjabi to win a medal in Olympics
Who were allowed to watch the first ever Olympics?
men
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Singapore.
Did Jimmy Hill ever enter winter Olympics?
No. Georg Hackl did: take a look at some of his photos :)
Did Portugal ever win the Olympics?
If you're asking if Portugal was ever granted the honor of hosting the Olympics, no. The first Olympics in a Portuguese-speaking country will the the 2016 Rio de Janeiro "Summer" Olympics.
When was the firs ever ancient Olympics?
The first ever olympic was held in Greece,Olympia
