The Olympics supposedly originated in ancient Greece as many as 3000 years ago.
The ancient Olympics held every four years occurred during a religious festival honoring the Greek god Zeus.
Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894 leading to the first modern Games in Athens in 1896.
In ancient Greece athletes didn’t worry about sponsorship, protection, or fashion – they competed naked. Back then, the games lasted five or six months.
Tarzan competed in the Olympics: Johnny Weissmuller, an athlete-turned-actor who played Tarzan in 12 movies, won five gold medals in swimming in the 1920s.
The unlit Olympic torch has also been taken to space several times.
Lit Olympic torches have flown on planes, stayed alight underwater and scaled Everest Some unlit torches have even gone into space too.
For the ancient Greece olympics prize some of the victers reserved a horse or a bronze tripod.
The ancient Games included running long jump shot put javelin boxing pankration and equestrian events. These days there's much more.
As you could imagine the Olympics have changed tremendously throughout the years by adding tons of new and existing sports and games and my making new reals and changing old ones
for the past two weeks at school, we had to research about the Olympics so this is mine i have done some stuff on what they wore and what they did in greec hope u like it