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	Ancient Olympics - articles - sport - British Council - LearnEnglish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In ancient Greece citizens of different city states could not always travel freely around the country, but during the Olympics the various rulers agreed truces so as that their citizens could attend the Olympics without problems.
		Similarly, while ancient Greek athletes were officially only competing for the honour of being awarded a symbolic olive branch, winners were usually sponsored by their city state, receiving a large sum of money, or a new home, or a lengthy tax holiday.
		The “Zappian Olympics”, as they became known after wealthy organiser Evangelos Zappas, were the bridge between the ancient and modern Olympics, and took place in Greece between 1859 and 1875.
	www.britishcouncil.org /et/learnenglish-sport-articles-ancient-olympics.htm (1077 words)

	Olympic games -> The Olympics of Ancient Greece on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Contestants were required to train faithfully for 10 months before the games, had to remain 30 days under the eyes of officials in Elis, who had charge of the games, and had to take an oath that they had fulfilled the training requirements before participating.
		The winners of the Olympics (and of the Heraea) were crowned with chaplets of wild olive, and in their home city-states male champions were also awarded numerous honors, valuable gifts, and privileges.
		The funeral of Israeli members of the Olympic team, assassinated by terrorists at the Munich 1972 Olympic games, being buried in Jerusalem.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/olympicg_theolympicsofancientgreece.asp (923 words)

	Ancient Olympics Guide: Myths about the Olympic Games
		The Olympic Truce, while guaranteeing safe passage to athletes and spectators on their way to the Games, did not, contrary to popular belief, stop all wars in Greece: Sparta was fined for attacking Elean territory in 420 B.C., and Arcadians invaded the sanctuary at Olympia in 364.
		Modern Olympic officials, citing an ancient inscription from Delphi that had been translated "Wine cannot be taken into the stadium," have assumed that ancient athletes abstained from strong drink, setting an example for today's competitors.
		The books identify it as ancient and say that the five rings "later adopted as the symbol of the modern Olympics" create "a link between the ancient and modern Olympics" and are "considered by experts to be 3,000 years old." More nonsense.
	www.archaeology.org /online/features/olympics/games.html (676 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		Through the 12 centuries of the Olympic Games, many wonderful athletes competed in the stadium and the hippodrome of ancient Olympia's sacred area, moving the crowds with their great achievements.
		The ancient Olympic Games were initially a one-day event until 684 BC, when they were extended to three days.
		The 14 articles of the Olympic regulations included an article on corruption: any corruption of a judge or an opponent would be punished by whipping.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/ancient/index_uk.asp (460 words)

	Olympics! Ancient Olympics!
		It was that particular race that was considered by the ancient Greeks and by the Romans (and by the 19th/20th/21st century Olympic movement) as the beginning of the quadrennial Olympic Calendar.
		The prize for winning an ancient Olympic event -- and there was only that single one-stade run in the first years -- was a simple twisted olive-branch crown, a green palm frond, and a free meal at the Olympia Prytaneion (City Hall).
		The ancient Olympics were always at Olympia (and there is now a fledgling movement to move them there permanently again).
	www.mmdtkw.org /VOlympics2002.html (2102 words)

	EDSITEment - This Month's Feature
		Pierre de Coubertin, father of the modern Olympic movement, declared, “The Olympic Games are for the world, and all nations must be admitted to them.” But for most of their history, the ancient Olympics were only for athletes of Greek lineage.
		One feature of the ancient Olympics that may be absent in the modern version is the idea of the ekecheiria, or “sacred truce.” Students can click here to investigate the concept of the sacred truce.
		The marathon was never an ancient Olympic event, but the race was first run as the final event in the inaugural modern Olympics, as a tribute to the popular legend of a Greek soldier named Phidippides (also spelled Pheidippides) who fought at the battle of Marathon in 490 BC.
	edsitement.neh.gov /monthly_feature.asp?id=78 (2340 words)

	Olympics - EnchantedLearning.com
		The Greeks held the first Olympic games in the year 776 BC (over 2700 years ago), and had only one event, a sprint (a short run that was called the "stade").
		At the end of an Olympics, the mayor of the host-city presents the flag to the mayor of the next host-city.
		For each Olympics, a new flame is started in the ancient Olympic stadium in Olympia, Elis, Greece, using a parabolic mirror to focus the rays of the Sun.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1311 words)

	Pictures Of The Ancient Olympics Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Like our Olympics, though, winning athletes were heroes who put their home towns on the map.
		Had ought her pictures of the ancient olympics might.
		Olympic gamesThe Olympics of Ancient GreeceAlthough records cannot verify games earlier than 776 BC, the contests in Homer's Iliad indicate a much earlier competitive tradition.
	www.all-about-olympic-games.com /pictures_of_the_ancient_olympics_p05.php (272 words)

	The Ancient Olympics
		The Olympics we see now are called the modern Olympics.
		No one knows the exact date of the first ancient Olympic Games.
		Ancient Greeks measured time in four year intervals called Olympiads.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_33_101.html (233 words)

	The Ancient Olympics
		The Olympic idea was born in ancient Greece nearly 3,000 years ago.
		The most important of these contests was the Olympic Games, dedicated to Zeus, the Father of the Gods.
		The Ancient Olympics lasted for more than a thousand years, but they started to lose their importance as the Romans began to take over Greece in the second century BC.
	library.thinkquest.org /20622/the.htm (316 words)

	HickokSports.com - History - The Ancient Olympics
		Although the ancient Olympic games were first recorded in 776 BC, they originated at least a century before that and possibly as early as the 13th century BC.
		They originally wore shorts but, according to one ancient writer, Pausanias, a competitor deliberately lost his shorts so that he could run more freely during the race in 720 BC, and clothing was then abolished.
		Even after the glory that was Greece vanished, the Olympics lived on, but in a debased form under the Romans, who replaced the traditional games with their own gladiatorial contests, in which slaves replaced free-born Greeks as the competitors.
	www.hickoksports.com /history/olancien.shtml (915 words)

	ancient greece olympics directory - China-Lifestyles.com
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		The ancient Olympics seem to have begun in...
	www.china-lifestyles.com /beijing-2008-olympics/ancient-greece-olympics.php (493 words)

	Ancient Olympics @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
		Ancient Olympics @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
		Have we strayed from the ancient Olympic ideal?
		It's easy to assume that the ancient Olympic Games were different, that ancient Greek athletes were pure in mind and body, that they trained and competed for no other reason than the love of physical exercise, fair competition and to honor their gods.
	www.upenn.edu /museum/Olympics/olympicintro.html (273 words)

	Ancient olympics - BBC - Schools - Ancient Greece Olympics
		This document is a history of the ancient Olympics.
		According to historical records, the first ancient Olympic Games can be traced The idea of a truce symbolises the spirit of the Ancient Olympic Games.
		The Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum with a plethora of information about the games that are the forefathers of the modern Olympics.
	ancient-olympics.finditeasily.com (246 words)

	Travel to the Sites of the Ancient Olympics
		You get a sense of the huge scale of the ancient games as you wander through the remains of buildings and temples where athletes trained, visitors lodged, and everyone worshiped.
		The care with which ancient Nemea is maintained is due to the extraordinary support provided by the University and other American contributors.
		Web sites relating to the ancient Olympics include the official Hellenic Ministry of Culture page at www.culture.gr, the highly informative and well-designed U.C. Berkeley web page on Nemea at ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~clscs275/, and the site of the Perseus Project at www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics.
	www.transitionsabroad.com /publications/magazine/0407/travel_to_sites_of_ancient_olympics.shtml (1313 words)

	Ancient Olympics Mixed Naked Sports, Pagan Partying (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Today's Olympics is a vast, secular event, but it doesn't have the religious element of the ancient Olympics, where sacrifices and rituals would take up as much time as the sports.
		Perhaps the most inspiring ancient ideal was the moratorium on war during the games, a sacred truce that allowed travelers to safely get to the games.
		The ancient Greeks had many mythological reasons for why they were held, but no one knows for sure.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2004/08/0809_040809_nakedolympics.html (455 words)

	Olympic games: The Olympics of Ancient Greece
		The Olympics reached their height in the 5th–4th cent.
		A.D. Among the Greeks, the games were nationalistic in spirit; states were said to have been prouder of Olympic victories than of battles won.
		At first, the Olympic games were confined to running, but over time new events were added: the long run (720 B.C.), when the loincloth was abandoned and athletes began competing naked; the
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/sports/A0860127.html (272 words)

	Training for the Ancient Olympics
		We all know that the modern day athletes at the Olympics are in incredible physical shape.
		Well, competitors in the ancient Olympics also trained long and hard to be the best.
		One month before the start of the Olympic games, the athlete would arrive and train in one of the arenas.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_33_100.html (242 words)

	Ancient Olympics
		The ancient Olympics seem to have begun in the early 700 BC, in honour of Zeus.
		Olympics Through Time the history of the Olympic Games from the time when athletic contests were held during religious ceremonies until the First International Olympic Games in 1896
		What is the History and Meaning of the Olympic Games an essay, by Michael Simos
	www.ancientgreece.com /olympics/olympics.htm (337 words)

	Ancient Olympics Guide
		With the lighting of the torch at Olympia on March 25, the final countdown to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens began.
		Women were prohibited from attending the Olympics, but girls participated in other athletic competitions.
		Many Olympic traditions, including the torch relay, are modern inventions.
	www.archaeology.org /online/features/olympics (221 words)

	The Ancient Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Members of the Perseus Project created this exhibit on the ancient Olympics in 1996, as a tribute to the Centennial Olympic Games held in Atlanta, Georgia.
		In this exhibit, you can compare ancient and modern Olympic sports, tour the site of Olympia as it looks today, learn about the context of the Games and the Olympic spirit, or read about the Olympic athletes who were famous in ancient times.
		The copyright to the Perseus database is owned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the President and Fellows of Harvard College and is protected by the copyright laws of the United States and the Universal Copyright Convention.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /Olympics/index.html (144 words)

	The Ancient Olympics Pathfinder
		Includes a comparison of ancient and modern Olympic sports, a virtual tour of the site of Olympia, articles about athletes and the Olympics.
		Although many of the pointers here are to the Perseus material, you'll find some original material, including the article Olympics Games, Ritual and Warfare.
		Other books about the Olympics in both Adult and Juvenile sections 796.48 include chapters on the original games.
	www.lkwdpl.org /lhs/olympics (250 words)

	The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		During this Olympic season, you may hear from announcers, critics, commentators and even athletes that the Olympic games are too commercial, too political, too "professional." Or that the judging is too nationalistic.
		We may not realize it, but in today's games we recreate–with surprising accuracy–the climate and circumstances surrounding the ancient Olympic Games.
		Romano is attending the Games with his family and is sharing his thoughts in an online journal, looking at the festivities through the lens of an anthropologist who has spent much of his career researching the ancient Olympics.
	www.museum.upenn.edu /new/olympics/olympicintro.shtml (239 words)

	The Olympic Games in the Ancient Hellenic World: A Virtual Museum
		Welcome to the Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum.
		Here you will find a plethora of information about the contests that are the forefathers of our modern Olympic Games.
		In order to use this site, we ask that you register with us and accept our copyright agreement.
	minbar.cs.dartmouth.edu /greecom/olympics (267 words)

	Ancient Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The ancient Olympics were rather different from the modern Games.
		Like our Olympics, though, winning athletes were heroes who put their home towns on the map.
		One young Athenian nobleman defended his political reputation by mentioning how he entered seven chariots in the Olympic chariot-race.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /Olympics/sports.html (162 words)

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