Olympic - Olympic Games Origin

Olympic Games were first held in the year 776 BC at the wooded valley of Olympia in Elis, Greece . A gap of four years was maintained between two consecutive Games with Summer and Winter Olympic Games alternating, although they occur every four years within their respective seasonal games. In Elis , temples and statues were built in a grove dedicated to the supreme god Zeus . An ivory and gold statue of Zeus created by Phidias , the sculptor was the greatest shrine.

According to some scholars, 776 BC Olympics were not the first games. Actually, it was the first Olympic after the Olympics were organized into festivals to be held every four years as a result of the peace agreement between the city states of Elis and Pisa . The people of Elis traced the founding of the Summer Games to King Iphitos . It is said that Delphi Oracle told King Iphitos to plant the olive tree from which winners' wreaths were made.

In first Olympic Games the only event was a 200-yard dash, called a stadium . Then, in 724 BC a two-stadia race was added. The 24-stadia event began two years later, and the pentathlon and wrestling became part of the games in 708 . This pentathlon was a five-event match consisting running, wrestling, leaping, throwing the discus, and hurling the javelin . Later on, boxing, a chariot race , and other events were included in the schedule of Olympic Games.

The winners of the Olympic Games were crowned with wreaths from olive tree . Olympic winners marched around the grove while admirers chanted songs written by a prominent poet.

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