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The first ancient Olympic Games can be traced back to 776 BC. They were dedicated to the Olympian gods and were staged on the ancient plains of Olympia.

Through the 12 centuries of the Olympic Games, many wonderful athletes competed in the stadium and the hippodrome of ancient Olympia's sacred area, moving the crowds with their great achievements.

The ancient Olympic Games were initially a one-day event until 684 BC, when they were extended to three days. In the 5th century B.C., the Games were extended again to cover five days.

The famous marathon race did not exist in the ancient Games. The starting pistol of the first Olympic marathon was fired on 14 April 1896 at 2 p.m.

Although the ancient Games were staged in Olympia, Greece, from 776 BC through 393 AD, it took 1503 years for the Olympics to return. The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896.

The idea of the Olympic torch or Olympic Flame was first inaugurated in the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. There was no torch relay in the ancient Olympic Games. There were known, however, torch relays in other ancient Greek athletic festivals including those held at Athens. The modern Olympic torch relay was first instituted at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

The ancient olympics had a rich variety of games (or contests, as they were called by the Ancient Greeks). Many of these games are the ancestors of our modern olympic games and had rules and playing conditions modern athletes would not be unfamiliar with.


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Sportstar Awards 2004: A Prestigious Line-up of Olympic Champions

On Monday 18 October at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, a number of Olympic athletes were honored by the television channel Eurosport, which presented the SportStar Awards 2004. Among the 30 winners were many Olympic champions from last August in Athens. The SportStar Awards paid tribute to the athletes, both men and women, who were the pride of European sport in Athens, and who gave the Eurosport viewers the chance to experience some unforgettable moments.

One winner per sport Each of the 28 International Sports Federations and the International Paralympic Committee were represented by the athletes. Among them were Siren Sundby (Norway), sailing; Zsuzsanna Voros (Hungary), modern pentathlon; Anke Kühn (Germany), hockey; Katherine Allen (Austria), triathlon; Alina Kabaeva (Russia), artistic gymnastics; Yelena Isinbayeva (Russia), pole vault; Tony Estanguet (France), canoe/kayak; and Anky van Grunsven (Netherlands), gold medallist in dressage; not forgetting Switzerland’s Marcel Fischer, fencing gold medallist.

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Mike Eruzione 16x20 Photo - Mike Eruzione scored what is considered the biggest goal in international history against the USSR during the 1980 Winter Olympics. This photo has been hand-signed by the Captain Mike Eruzione in blue sharpie and is compete with a certificate of authenticity from Grandstand Sports & Memorabilia, Inc.




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James B. Connolly (United States), winner of the hop, step, and jump (the first final event in the 1896 Olympics), was the first Olympic champion of the modern Olympic Games.



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