Olympics

Olympics

By : Michael C Home

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The olympics where held to honor the gods. They where held every four years. In the olimpics women where not allowed because when the men competed they competed naked. The ancient greece olympics where held in Olympia. It was a religous festival that they did to honner the gods. They also did it for the glory of winning.

__Buildings__ The greek games where held in fields. At the olympics there was a huge statue of the greek god Zeus.

__Day 1__ On the first day there were not games being held, but there was a lot going on. On the first day they brought 100 oxen to sacrifice to the gods. All the competitors also made little prayers and made small sacerfices themselves. At the end of that day they also had parties.

__Day 2__ On the second day the competing started. On the second day the main thing was the foot races. They had a lot of different types of races. They where all held in on big stadium. The races where all different. The first races where one stadium length. The one stadium length equeled 192 meters. Then they had a two stadium length race. After that was the long distance race which was twenty-four stadium lengths. To end the day they had there armor races. In these races they ran two staduim lengths with fullbattle aumor on.

__Day 3 and 4__ On these days they had wrestling and boxing. They also had pancratium which was a combination of both. These took two days because they where popular and they had a lot of people doing them.

__Day 5__ On the fith day they had all there horse and chariot races. This took them a while but they had to make sure they got them all in. After that the had there discus, javlin and many other small compititions. At the end of that day they had there award ceremony where everyone that won was crowned with an olive crown.