They were a four-yearly religious festival started in 776 BCE to honour the god Zeus. They were held at Olympia in southern Greece. After a thousand years, they had become so commercialised ad politicised, the Romans, by this stage in control of the Greek world, closed them down.
They were resurrected in the modern era as a straight athletics/sporting competition by other European countries in 1896, and have continued every four years in different countries around the world.
my mum
No.
There was no Olympic Games outside of Greece before the first one was recorded.
The ancient Olympic games were held in Olympia, Greece.
They both had people in it and judges and prizes
No, the olympic games started in Ancient Greece
The place of the Ancient Olympic Games was Olympia in Ancient Greece
All wars were paused during the olympic games in ancient Greece.
The Olympic games in ancient Greece were originally named after the location of the games which was Olympia. Because of this the games were originally called the Olympiads.
The Greeks are the ones who stared the olympic games to worship their gods and godesses.
One fact - there were no ancient Greek Olympic Equestrian Games
in 1900
Athens Greece
greece
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my mum
No.