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1. The sprinting event in the ancient Olympics was inspired by Hercules. "At the Olympic Games, the sprint was always the most important race. It was run over a distance of a little more than 192 meters, the distance that Hercules (or Herakles), the mythical founder of the Games, was said to have been able to run in one breath."[]

2. In the Ancient Olympics all the participants would usually get a jar full of olive oil as a prize."Sometimes up to 100 of them, depending on the contest, were presented to the victors, and would have been full of olive oil, useful for cooking, lighting lamps, or for cleansing the body. One side of the amphora would illustrate the contest, and the other the goddess Athena, and sometimes the name of the archon, or chief official, presiding at the event. was included."[]

3. Women back then weren't really able to participate in sports except in the city of Sparta. "Women in ancient Greece were rarely allowed to take part in sport, except in Sparta, where it was believed that mothers who were tough and strong would produce good Spartan soldiers."

4. The women were only allowed to participate in only one event and that was the foot race."Like the Olympics the Heraia were celebrated every four years, but the only event was the foot-race, with contests for three separate age-groups. The races were held in the stadium but with the track being shortened by one sixth, making it 158m long, instead of the 192m run by the men."

5.The Olympics were always held at the Temple of Zeus." The ancient Olympic Games were always held at Olympia in the western Peloponnese. Here, at the heart of the sacred precinct of Zeus, stood the magnificent Temple of Zeus, the chief god of Greek mythology, who was believed to bestow on athletes the prowess and skills that enabled them to excel in sport, and was thus inextricably bound up with the ancient Games."

6.A lot of the people in ancient Greece saw the Olympics as a religious thing so they had to go even if they didn't want to."First and foremost, the Greeks, as noted above, viewed the Olympic Games as a religious festival. It was therefore their duty to attend and/or participate in the Games, and duty to the gods was more important than duty to their city-states, which were fighting the wars in the first place! Second, many of the best athletes were also soldiers whose commanders did not want them to leave the fighting."

7.Pankration was an Olympic event in ancient Greece and its trying to come back in the Olympics of today."Pankration is an ancient Greek martial art which used to be an Olympic event back in the day of Alexander the Great. Modern Olympic wrestling and boxing are direct descendants of this Hellenic sport, which is not recognized by the current Olympic movement."

8.Back in ancient Greece the Olympics were much much tougher than today's Olympics."Pankration is an ancient Greek martial art which used to be an Olympic event back in the day of Alexander the Great. Modern Olympic wrestling and boxing are direct descendants of this Hellenic sport, which is not recognised by the current Olympic movement."

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