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History of the Olympic Games
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Origins: Ancient Greece
• They were part of a religious festival• Greek life revolved around religion and sports,
and were a way to honour the Gods.• Panhellenic Games were open to competitors
from all Greek colonies and religions: Pythian, Nemean, Isthmian and the Olympic Games
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Events included
• Pentathlon: Running, Jumping, throwing the Javelin, Discus, Wrestling
• Runners Prize – a way to keep fit for battle• Women were not included – however a
separate festival existed every for years: Heraia honouring Hera. Girls were encouraged to participate to make them strong so that they would later produce good Spartan soldiers
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Prizes• Runners Prize: Winners were awarded an
Amphora (a two handled vessel, full of the finest olive oil).
• Competing for sports was scene as a way of keeping fit for battle
• Floral Tributes: Olympic Olive Wreath was the greatest prize – cut from a sacred tree that stood behind Zeus’s temple at Olympia.– Pythian Games: Laurel, Nemean Games: Celery,
Isthmian Games: Pine.
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Amphora – Runner’s Prize
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Why did it end?
• No one knows!• After 261 A.D. no further records exist• Roman Empire took over the Greek Empire,
and the games died out.
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Games Reborn
• Frenchman Baron Pierre de Coubertin had a dream to bring the games back to life.
• At a conference on international sports in Paris 1894, Coubertin revived the idea
• The International Olympic committee was formed, and two years later in Athens, the king of Greece declared the opening of the first Olympic games of the modern era.
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Pierre de Coubertin
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Olympic Oath
• A promise made by one athlete as a representative of each of the participating Olympic competitors; and by one judge—as a representative of each officiating Olympic referee or other official, at the opening ceremonies of each Olympic Games.
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“In the name of all the competitors I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules which govern them, committing ourselves to a sport without doping and without drugs, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honor of our teams.”
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Torch Relay• A symbol of international unity, the Olympic
flame is taken by torch relay across national borders from the ancient site of Olympia to the Olympic Venue.