Wednesday, April 30, 2008

. Research the history of the ancient Olympics


The records of the ancient games starts back in 776BC but they were most likely created about hundreds of years before that.The olympics began as a very small event but eventually it gained peoples attention and the population gradually increasea.It soon became a festiveil in Greece for nearly 1000 years.These games would be held every 4 (four) years.The ancient games became very impotant that the Greeks recored events according to the Olympiad or a 4 year period in which they thet took place


These are some of the Ancient Olympic.

Ancient Olympics: Main Sports

Boxing
Discus (part of Pentathlon)
Equestrian Events
Javelin (part of Pentathlon)
Jumping
Pankration
Pentathlon
Running
Wrestling

The pentathlon, which began in the 18th Olympiad, consisted of the 5 (pent-) sports of

1.discus,
2.javelin,
3.long jump,
4.running, and
5.wrestling.

1 comment:

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