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How They Have Changed

  • Women are allowed to compete
  • Prizes: olive tree crowns to medals.
  • Winter and summer
  • Five days to seventeen
  • Eighteen events to 339 events in the summer and 102 in the winter

What Took Place

  • Stadion foot race
  • Diaulos and Dolichis foot races
  • Wrestling
  • Pentathlon
  • Boxing

The Modern Olympics

Fun Facts

  • 1896
  • Olympia
  • Women competed starting in 1900
  • A cook won the first Olympics
  • Women had their own "Olympics"
  • In 393 CE, Roman Emperor banned the Ancient Olympics
  • They were revived 1,500 years later in 1896

Why and How They Began

  • Zeus

Where They Started

When They Began

  • Olympia, Greece
  • Western Peloponnese region
  • 776 BCE
  • 393 CE
  • 293 Olympiads

Fun Facts

Sources

https://www.olympic.org/ancient-olympic-games/history

https://www.ancient.eu/Olympic_Games/

http://www.history.com/topics/olympic-games

https://www.penn.museum/sites/olympics/olympicorigins.shtml

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/02/10-fascinating-facts-about-the-ancient-olympic-games/

https://www.sutori.com/story/ancient-olympic-games

  • Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon
  • Thai weightlifter
  • James B. Connolly (USA) won the first modern Olympic medal
  • Hop, step, and jump
  • Michael Phelps
  • 28 total; 23 gold
  • USA total medals: 2,835

The Ancient Olympics

Veronica Morse

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