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| | Olympic Victors |
 | | Theagenes won twice in Olympia, in boxing 480 BC and pankration 476 BC, but had numerous other victories at the Pythian games, etc. After his death, the people of Thasos made his statue and there is a story that someone who was unable to defeat Theagenes, he was hitting the statue every night. |
 | | The boxer Diagoras of Rhodes (464 BC) belonged to a noble family and during his life, he was known by the whole Greece, as the best example of an athlete. |
 | | It was the Megarian Orsippos, winner of the foot race in 720 BC, who distinguished himself as the first Greek to run naked in Olympia and he was praised for his action, because he extended the borders of his country, while her enemies where trying to shrink them. |
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