Julia+and+Gabby

Ancient Olympics Our Olympics today may seem fun and exciting,but, the ancient Greece Olympics were more tougher and exciting also. Today’s Olympics involve swimming and curling,which are hard sports.The Ancient Greece had chariot races, running which is the same as track for us. But one other sport that the Ancient Greece have that we don’t have today is wrestling. Both of us have difficult, challenging,exciting sports. All the Ancient Greece events were held in Olympia, Greece. within these olympic games there was a sacred truce

In the Olympics only men could compete in the events, only if they could speak Greek. Also your teams were the city-states that you lived in. Out of all city-states there all only 5 could participate.You couldn’t just sign up for the Olympics you had to be in Greece, too.These games are tough but the Olympics were the only competition in Greece. People could compete every 2 months in a stadium.The stadium was in olympia, south-west Greece.

The Olympic games were different from the modern days. If you won the Olympic games you were awarded a Olive Branch and when you got one you received much honor from your city-state. The first Olympics started in 776 B.C.E. When the Olympic games first started it was only one day, but eventually it became up to five days. To only the Greeks it was important to root Olympic games in mythology. They held these games to honor Zeus.

By: Gabby Marzano, Julia Orozco

Websites Used: perseus.tufts.edu/olympics/sports.html, greece.mrdonn.org/olympicshttp:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games