1. Ancient Sports Ancient Olympic Events. Philadelphia MS2444 Side A trainer watching wrestlers The ancient Olympics were rather different from the modern http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

2. A History Of The Olympics Olympics A History of the Modern Games. Chicago University of Illinois Press, 1992. Henry, Bill. An Approved History of the Olympic Games. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

3. Welcome To The International Centre For Olympic Studies Established at The University of Western Ontario in 1989. It has as its primary mission the generation of academic scholarship focused specifically http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

4. Olympics Historic results and statistics plus summaries of every Olympic Winter and Summer Games. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

5. Olympic Games The Modern Olympics All rights reserved. Page Tools Cite. Print. Email. Related content from HighBeam Research on Olympic games The Modern Olympics http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

6. The Real Story Of The Ancient Olympic Games More about sports and less about money? Are modern games more sexist? More political? Have we strayed from the ancient Olympic ideal? http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

7. ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games The official website of the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games Games of the XXVIII Olympiad of history and tradition coexist with the modern faces of http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

8. Olympics Through Time The evolution of the Olympics from Prehistory and Antiquity up to their modern revival in 1896. Detail information about all the winners in Antiquity http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126

9. The Olympic Games In The Ancient Hellenic World: A Virtual Museum The Ancient olympic games Virtual Museum with a plethora of information about the games that are the forefathers of the modern olympics. http://minbar.cs.dartmouth.edu/greecom/olympics/

Guest access GREeCOM.org Register Log In Ancient Olympic Games ... Other Hellenic World Sites The Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum Welcome! 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 There is no charge for using this site; however, you have to agree not to redistribute all or part of this site. Privacy Warning: Please note that this site is collecting user information, such as your username, requested page, time of visit, your browser's IP address, and browser configuration. This information is used internally only (primarily for improving this site) and is not shared with any third parties. Statistics gained from this information, but not personal information, may be published on this website or in research papers. Click here to log in If you don't have a username yet, please register now By registering, you also become entitled to use our websites on E-Commerce issues: We invite you to visit these sites to learn about the challenges and dangers in and of online business.

10. The Ancient Olympics the ancient olympics in 1996, as a tribute to the Centennial olympic games held In this exhibit, you can compare ancient and modern olympic sports, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/

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 Perseus Digital Library Project is centered in the Classics Department at Tufts University. Ancient and Modern Olympic Sports A Tour of Ancient Olympia The Context of the Games and the Olympic Spirit Athletes' Stories ... Classics Department 124 Eaton Hall, Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 U.S.A. Credits Please send us your comments. Last modified 13 August, 2004.

11. History Of Our Olympic Games Some information and a brief history of modern and ancient games. http://kushkm.tripod.com/History-of-the-Olympics/

document.isTrellix = 1; setAdGroup('67.18.104.18'); var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "tripod.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" Search: Lycos Tripod Free Games Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site ... Next History of Our Olympic Games Welcome to our web site! Have you watched the Olympics on TV or better yet been there to experience it live? Did you ever wondered why the Olympics started? I did! If you want to be on or go to the Olympics, I think you first need to know about it. Why did the games start? At the original Olympics what games did they play? Also what games do they play today? Now, get ready for the world of the Olympics. Have you ever wondered how the Olympics started? In Olympia, Greece the Olympic Games were held every four years. First Olympic game was recorded in 776 BC; that was about 3,000 years ago. At that time this great festival took place to honor the Greek gods. Olympics were held during the great festival. My resources say Olympics were held to please the various gods. One God, in particular, the most important was called Zeus. The Olympics were called Olympiad in Greece. Now we know where the games are held, but we dont know what games they played? In the first thirteen Olympic games, there was only one event and that was the sprint. The sprint event was about one hundred and eight meters in length. Then later Pentathlon was added and it had different events. There was discus, javelin, jumping, running, and wrestling. After a while, they added Equestrian events and that included chariot racing and riding. The Ancient Olympics did have lots of events. They had two major events Equestrian and Pentathlon events.

12. Athens 2004 Summer Olympics For Kids Offers a history of the games, along with a look at modern sports, diaries of athletes, photos, and printable olympic trading cards. http://www.chevroncars.com/wocc/lrn/olympics/

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13. Ancient Olympics @ University Of Pennsylvania Museum Of Archaeology & Anthropolo Were the ancient games better than ours? More fair and square? More about sports and less about money? Are modern games more sexist? More political? Have we strayed from the ancient olympic ideal? http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Olympics/olympicintro.html

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14. A History Of The Olympics The very first modern olympic games opened in the first week of April 1896. Allen Guttmann, The olympics A History of the modern games (Chicago http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa081000a.htm

zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Homework Help 20th Century History Homework Help ... Help w(' ');zau(256,140,140,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/C.htm','');w(xb+xb+' ');zau(256,140,140,'von','http://z.about.com/0/ip/496/7.htm','');w(xb+xb); FREE Newsletter Sign Up Now for the 20th Century History newsletter! See Online Courses Search 20th Century History A History of the Olympics According to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles (the Roman Hercules), a son of Zeus. Yet the first Olympic Games for which we still have written records were held in 776 BCE (though it is generally believed that the Games had been going on for many years already). At this Olympic Games, a naked runner, Coroebus (a cook from Elis), won the sole event at the Olympics, the stade - a run of approximately 192 meters (210 yards). This made Coroebus the very first Olympic champion in history. The ancient Olympic Games grew and continued to be played every four years for nearly 1200 years. In 393 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I, a Christian, abolished the Games because of their pagan influences. Approximately 1500 years later, a young Frenchmen named

15. ABC Online News - Sports: Modern Pentathlon History of modern Pentathlon and results of Australian pentathletes in olympic games. http://www.abc.net.au/news/olympics/sports/pentathlon.htm

LISTEN: WMP Real Select a Topic from the list below Click "Refresh" or "Reload" on your browser for the latest edition. Top Stories Breaking Stories World Business ... Local News SPECIALS Olympics Swim Trials Athletes Sports ... Coverage RELATED ABC SITES Lateline Four Corners 7.30 Report Foreign Correspondent Landline Australian Story Stateline AM ... Correspondents' Report INTERACTIVE Forums Contact Us News Mail HELP Hearing Audio Viewing Video ABC ONLINE Home Other Areas of Interest: Subject Arts Science Children Youth Education Rural Local Shop OLYMPICS : Sports Modern pentathlon The pentathlon, whether modern or ancient, has always been designed as a soldiers’ event. It was introduced to the ancient Olympics in the eighth century BC after the Spartans complained that too many Olympic events favoured civilians and did nothing to reward the skills of the warrior. In those days the sport was an elimination event featuring five disciplines: discus, spear throwing, long jump, running and wrestling. The idea was that weaker competitors were progressively eliminated until just two remained to wrestle for the title. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the Modern Olympics, obviously liked the idea and was keen to incorporate a similar event in the Games.

16. Olympic Games - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia The first modern olympic games were a success. Although the total number of When measuring by the number of titles won at the modern olympic games, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympics

Olympic Games From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Olympics The Olympic Games , or Olympics , is an international multi-sport event taking place every two years and alternating between Summer and Winter Games. Originally held in ancient Greece , they were revived by a French nobleman, Pierre Fr¨dy, Baron de Coubertin in the late 19th century . The Games of the Olympiad , better known as the Summer Olympics , have been held every fourth year since , with the exception of the years during the World Wars A special edition for winter sports , the Olympic Winter Games , was established in . Originally these were held in the same year as the Summer Olympics, but starting with the Winter Games are in between, two years after the Games of the Olympiad. Contents Ancient Olympics Revival of the Olympic Games Modern Olympics Growth ... edit Ancient Olympics For months before the Olympic Games , runners relay the Olympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. Athletes trained in this Olympia facility in its heyday. In detail: Ancient Olympic Games The origin of the ancient Olympic Games has been lost, although there are many legends surrounding its origins. One of these legends associates the first Games with the ancient Greek concept of

17. The Real Story Of The Ancient Olympic Games The ancient olympic games were primarily a part of a religious festival in honorof Zeus The first modern olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/olympics/olympicorigins.shtml

THE GAMES The ancient Olympic Games were primarily a part of a religious festival in honor of Zeus, the father of the Greek gods and goddesses. The festival and the games were held in Olympia (see 'Did you know' in the glossary), a rural sanctuary site (model shown here, courtesy of the British Museum) in the western Peloponnesos. The Greeks that came to the Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia shared the same religious beliefs and spoke the same language. The athletes were all male citizens of the city-states from every corner of the Greek world, coming from as far away as Iberia (Spain) in the west and the Black Sea (Turkey) in the east. The sanctuary was named in antiquity after Mt. Olympos (see 'Did you know' in the glossary), the highest mountain in mainland Greece. In Greek mythology, Mt. Olympos was the home of the greatest of the Greek gods and goddesses. The ancient Olympic Games began in the year 776 BC , when Koroibos, a cook from the nearby city of Elis, won the stadion race, a foot race 600 feet long. The stadion track at Olympia is shown here. According to some literary traditions, this was the only athletic event of the games for the first 13 Olympic festivals or until 724 BC. From 776 BC, the Games were held in Olympia every four years for almost 12 centuries.

18. The First Modern Olympics Athens, 1896 Marathon runners train for the first modern olympic games in 1896 I herebyproclaim the opening of the first International olympic games at Athens. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/mm-athens.html

in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Daily Almanac for Sep 24, 2005 Skip Navigation Home Almanacs ... Word of the Day Editor's Favorites Hispanic Heritage Month Hurricane Katrina Daylight Saving Time Ramadan ... Texas Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map College Center Scholarship Search College Resources Career Center Job Search Post Your Resume Continuing Ed. more . . . Search: Infoplease Info search tips Search: Biographies Bio search tips The First Modern Olympics: Athens, 1896 The birth of the modern Olympic Games by John Gettings Marathon runners, Greece 1896 "I hereby proclaim the opening of the first International Olympic Games at Athens." With these words on April 6, 1896, King George I of Greece welcomed the crowd that had gathered in the newly reconstructed Panathenean Stadium to the modern-day Olympic Summer Games. The event was the idea of Baron Pierre de Coubertin of France who traveled the world to gather support for his dream to have nations come together and overcome national disputes, all in the name of sport. If not for the generous private donations of Greek businessmen like George Averoff, these first Olympics might have been moved to

19. Tom Campbell Olympic Games A Historical Proposal In 2004 AD the modern olympic games will be held in Athens, Greece. Sites withgeneral information about the modern olympics. olympic games http://www.berksiu.k12.pa.us/webquest/TCampbell/

20. Olympia: Home Of The Original Olympic Games Matt Barrett s Guide to the ancient site of the first olympic games. There wasno television so unlike modern olympics, spectators were able to see all http://www.greecetravel.com/olympia/

Olympia The most common question asked about the 2004 Olympics is "Do you think Greece can pull it off?" That's a tough question. Those with a cynical attitude towards the Greeks and their laid-back attitudes about life believe that it is impossible and the Olympics in Athens will be a disaster if they even materialize. They point to the chaos of modern Athens and what they describe as Byzantine politics and an Olympic commitee whose main agenda seemed to be the drapes in their offices instead of construction that was falling dangerously behind schedule. Some point to Salt Lake City and the scandals there and say "If the religious state of Utah can be corrupted by the money that the winter Olympics can bring in, what about Greece, where large sums of EEC money for social and infrastructure improvements end up in Swiss bank accounts and polititians and officials first order of business is to make sure they are financially secure before they worry about the needs of their constituents." But I believe the Olympics can be pulled off because I think the country is changing. I think the Greek attitude towards corruption and incompetance is being altered by the scrutiny Greece is receiving because of incidents in the last couple years. The anti-NATO demonstrations, the Clinton Riots and the sinking of the ferry boat Samina have made many Greeks realize that a handfull of idiots are making the whole country look like jerks. Because of this the Greeks are determined to pull off these Olympics and prove to the world and themselves that they are not one step away from being Third World, but they are a serious partner of the larger countries who are forging the future. They completed the Metro (almost), and even if they did forget to put in air-conditioning they have proven that some things can get (almost)done in Greece.

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