Transcript The Olympic Games - Lord Deramore's Primary School

The Olympic Games
By Madi
How it all started
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The Ancient Greek Olympics were a lot different than our Olympics now-adays.
The only people who were allowed to compete were men who could speak
Greek.
Once a girl got caught watching the male Olympics . But she didn’t get
arrested because her father was a famous boxer .
Also there were fewer games such as different types of realising ???
The first Olympics games are usually given the start year of 776 BC but
they probably began even sooner. The ancient Greeks loved
competitions , especially sporting competitions. The Olympics were not
the only games held in ancient Greece, but they were the most popular.
How it all started
! The following is a humorous look at five
ancient Greek city-states. In truth, the Greeks
did take the games quite seriously. Nearly all
the ancient Greek cities sent teams to
participate in the ancient Greek Olympics. If
two or more Greek city-states happen to be
at war with each other when the game date
arrived, war was halted for the duration of
the games. Everyone wanted their city-state
to win
How it all started
• Once every four years, men from all over
Greece came to compete in a great
athletic festival in Elis, in western Greece
(Women were not allowed to compete).
This was called the Olympic games
because the place was called Olympia. It
was a religious festival to honour the
Greek gods Zeus and Hera.
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