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Essay Archive - Ancient Greek Olympics
Ancient Greek Olympics
Reporting today's Olympic games is like a technological masterpiece.
The athletes compete in many events, their times and scores are tallied and
sent worldwide by satellites and high-tech computers within seconds. Each event
is carefully watched and recorded with a sense of history. There was no such
sense of history or records when the first Games began in Ancient Greece.
The first recorded champion in Greece was a sprinter, Coroebus, he was
a cook in a near by Greek city called, Elis. He ran naked on a sanded course in
front of thousands of spe....
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