Within a few hundred years, the Olympics expanded far beyond a single running event ... Nine Things You Didn't Know About the Ancient Olympic Games. Story by Sonja Anderson • 10mo. I n 776 B.C ...

This long jump event has some similarities to the current sport. ... (French School of Athens); History of Ancient Olympic Games, Lynn and Gray Poole. 1963; A Visitor’s Guide to the Ancient ...

An 1838 illustration of Pindar, the lyric poet from ancient Greece, reciting one of the Olympian odes DEA / ICAS94 via Getty Images At the ancient Olympics in Greece, athletes weren’t the only ...

A popular game in Ancient Greece and one of the core events within the Ancient Olympic Games (which trace back to the 7th century B.C.E.), the discus thrower motif was a common one within the ...

The Olympics that we know and love today trace its roots to ancient times, as far back as 776 B.C. in Olympia, Greece.

The flame for the 2024 Paris Olympics has been lit in Olympia, the birthplace of the ancient Olympics. The flame will now begin its journey in a relay to light the cauldron that will mark the ...

It was part of the 1912 Olympics and maintained a stronghold in the event lineup for the Games. The modern pentathlon would take place over several days, much like the decathlon and heptathlon.

Nine Things You Didn’t Know About the Ancient Olympic Games With an intensive athletes’ boot camp and the threat of execution for unwelcome spectators, the Greek sporting event was a serious ...