By Raquel

The Olympic Games begun at Olympia in Greece in 776 BC. The Greek calendar was based on the Olympiad, the four-year period between games. The games were staged in the wooded valley of Olympia in Elis. Here the Greeks erected statues and built temples in a grove dedicated to Zeus, supreme among the gods. The greatest shrine was an ivory and gold statue of Zeus. Created by the sculptor Phidias, it was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Scholars have speculated that the games in 776 BC were not the first games, but rather the first games held after they were organized into festivals held every four years as a result of a peace agreement between the city-states of Elis and Pisa. The Eleans traced the founding of the Olympic games to their King Iphitos, who was told by the Delphi Oracle to plant the olive tree from which the victors' wreaths were made.

OLYMPICS deanna

Olympic Summer Games:
Athens 1896
Paris 1900
St. Louis 1904
London 1908
Stockholm 1912
Antwerp 1920
Paris 1924
Amsterdam 1928
Los Angeles 1932
Berlin 1936
London 1948
Helsinki 1952
Melbourne 1956
Rome 1960
Tokyo 1964
Mexico City 1968
Munich 1972
Montreal 1976
Moscow 1980
Los Angeles 1984
Seoul 1988
Barcelona 1992
Atlanta 1996
Sydney 2000
Athens 2004

By Raquel

the olympics by aaron..

Boxing
Mississippi 1977.3.68Side B: boxersPhotograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the University Museums, University of Mississippi
Ancient boxing had fewer rules than the modern sport. Boxers fought without rounds until one man was knocked out, or admitted he had been beaten. Unlike the modern sport, there was no rule against hitting an opponent when he was down.
There were no weight classes within the mens' and boys' divisions; opponents for a match were chosen randomly.
Philadelphia MS2444Side B: himantes hanging above boxer Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Instead of gloves, ancient boxers wrapped leather thongs (himantes) around their hands and wrists which left their fingers free.
Plato makes fun of boxers' faces, calling them the "folk with the battered ears." Plato, Gorgias 515e.
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Swimming: International Swim Meet 2007 -- Day 4 results
24 August 2007© 2007 AFP
Results from the International Swim Meet 2007 here Friday:
Men
50m freestyle
1. Gerhard Zandbert (RSA) 22.18 sec
2. Eamon Sullivan (AUS) 22.22
3. Nick Brunelli (USA) 22.31
4. Gideon Louw (RSA) 22.82
5. Lukasz Gasior (POL) 22.88
6. Makoto Ito (JPN) 22.90
7. Hisayoshi Sato (JPN) 22.94
8. Matthew Targett (AUS) 23.49
100m butterfly
1. Takashi Yamamoto (JPN) 52.50
2. Andrew Lauterstein (AUS) 52.75
3. William Stovall (USA) 52.82
4. Ryo Takayasu (JPN) 52.84
5. Corney Swanepoel (NZL) 53.27
6. Wu Peng (CHN) 53.31
7. Moss Burmester (NZL) 53.37
8. Todd Cooper (GBR) 54.21
200m individual medley
1. Liam Tancock (GBR) 1:59.19
2. TP Patrick (USA) 2:00.59
3. Ken Takakuwa (JPN) 2:00.94
4. Gregor Tait (GBR) 2:01.25
5. Leith Brodie (AUS) 2:01.82
6. Takahiro Mori (JPN) 2:01.95
7. Liu Weijia (CHN) 2:02.08
8. Mihail Alexandrov (BUL) 2:02.43
4x100m medlay relay
1. Japan 3:33.35 (Tomomi Morita, Kosuke Kitajima, Ryo Takayasu, Hisayoshi Sato)
2. USA 3:35.15, 3. Australia 3:35.42, 4. Britain 3:39.04, 5. China 3:40.63, 6. South Africa 3:41.92, 7. Mexico 3:57.96
Women
50m freestyle
1. Cate Campbell (AUS) 24.48
2. Lisbeth Lenton (AUS) 24.65
3. Zhu Yingwen (CHN) 25.18
4. Lara Jackson (USA) 25.38
4 Xu Yanwei (CHN) 25.38
6. Magdalena Kuras (SWE) 25.77
7. Christin Magnuson (USA) 25.78
8. Kaori Yamada (JPN) 25.81
800m freestyle
1. Ai Shibata (JPN) 8.23.76
2. Yurie Yano (JPN) 8:27.62
3. Kylie Palmer (AUS) 8:30.51
4. Rebecca Cooke (GBR) 8:33.21
5. Yang Fan (CHN) 8:33.79
6. Wendy Trott (RSA) 8:34.67
7. Alyssa Anderson (USA) 8:36.32
8. Yu Xin (CHN) 8:38.80

The Olympics

The Olympic Games started more than two thousands years ago.It started with ancient Greece and other surrounding countries but now its world wide.The Olympics take place every four years and are done in summer and winter.

* The Olympics *

The Olympics were started long ago in ancient Rome. It was a series of altheleic games where a bunch of people came from far and wide to compete for first place! Only men use to compete... Now in days it's a series of competetive sports where people go for the gold! And everyone can compete!