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| | A FATEFUL CHARIOT RACE: The STORY of PELOPS and OENOMAUS |
 | | At Olympia, not far from Pisa, he founded the Olympic Games, holding there its first chariot race -- either to thank the gods for his victory over Oenomaus, or as a funeral game to honor him and keep his spirit at bay. |
 | | Hippodamea, too, created a contest at Olympia to commemorate her husband's victory: the Heraia, the footrace for girls. |
 | | For betraying the traitorous charioteer Myrtilus, to appease his spirit Pelops built a momument/memorial to him at Olympia's hippodrome, its racetrack for horse- and chariot-races. |
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