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| Tango01 | 26 Nov 2020 9:31 p.m. PST |
by Adrian Burrows. "Notwithstanding a short break (what's a millennia and a half between friends ay?), the Olympics has been a part of humanity's story for the last 2800 years – ish. The start of the Ancient Olympics is usually attributed to the year 776 BC -that's when the first Olympic Games took place in the town of Olympia; situated somewhere between the city-states of Elis and Sparta on the west coast of the Peloponnese. The first Games consisted of only one event, the Stade race, in which runners had to run 280 meters (or a Stadion, the word we derive ‘stadium' from). The race was unremarkable, should 20 competitors decide run a Stade race today it would be remarkably similar to a modern sprint – other than the fact that male competitors would all be naked of course. Which would certainly make for some unflattering media coverage, or perhaps a 21st century resurgence of the Stade race would make the Olympics more popular than ever? …"
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