THE OLYMPICS GAMES
(THE ANCIENT
OLYMPICS GAMES)
The games
• The ancient Olympic games were a
religious festival in honor of Zeus
• The games were held in Olympia during
spring and summer
The athletes were all male citizens
from every corner of the Greek world.
The ancient Olympic Games began in
the year 776 BC,when Koroibos, a
cook won the stadion race, a foot
race 600 feet long.
This was the only athletic event of the
games for the first 13 olympic festivals
or until 724 BC.
The race commemorates the run of
Pheidippides, an ancient runner who
carried the news of the Persian victory at
Marathon of 490 BC to Sparta .The
distance of the modern marathon is about
42 Km.
NUDITY AT THE GAMES?
There are 2 stories about Another tradition tells that
nudity at the ancient
the spartans introduced
Olympic games.The first
nudity to the Olympic
story was about a runner
Games in the VIII century
from Megara, Orsippos or
BC.
Orrhippos who, in 720 BC
was the first to run naked
in the stadion race when
he lost his shorts in the
race.
Ancient Olympic events
There were 9 events :
boxing,chariot racing, horse
riding,pentathlon, pankration,javeling,
jumping, running and wrestling.
Boxing
Ancient boxing had fewer
rules than the modern
sport.Boxers fought
without rounds until one
man was knocked out, or
admitted that he had
been beaten.Unlike the
modern sports, there
wasn’t any rules against
hitting an opponent when
he was down.
CHARIOT RACING
There were both 2horse chariot races,
with separate races
for chariots drawn by
foals.Another race
was between carts
drawn by a team of 2
donkies.The course
was 12 laps around
the stadium track.
HORSE RIDING
The course was 6
laps around the track,
and there were
separated races for
full-grown horses and
foals. Only wealthy
people could afford to
pay for there training
and feed of both the
driver and the horse.
PENTATHLON
The ancient Greeks
considered the rhythm
and the precision of an
athlete throwing the
discus as important as
his strength.
The discus was made
of stone, iron, bronze or
lead, and was shaped
like a flying saucer.
PANKRATION
Pankration was a combat sport and
founded as a blend of boxing and
wrestling,but scarcely any rules.The only
things not acceptable were to bite and to
put fingers in their eyes.
JAVELING
The javeling throw is a
track and field
athletics event were
the javeling a about
2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) in
length, is thrown.
Javelin throwing is an
event of both the
men's decathlon and
the women's
heptathlon.
RUNNING
• There were 4 types of
race at Olympia.The
stadion was the
oldest event of the
Games.Runners
sprinted for 1 stade,2
stade race and from 7
to 24 stades.
BY:
QUIZ FINALE
1.GLI ANTICHI GIOCHI GRECI ERANO IN ONORE DI ERA
V F
2.GLI ANTICHI GIOCHI OLIMPICI COMINCIARONO NEL 776 A.C.
V F
3. GLI ATLETI SI ESIBIVANO VESTITI
V
4. LA MARATONA E’ UNA CORSA LUNGA 32 KM.
V
F
F
5. LA CORSA DEI CAVALLI ERA UN GIOCO DELLE OLIMPIADI ANTICHE
V F
6.IL PANCRAZIO ERA UN TIPO DI CORSA
7.NEI GIOCHI OLIMPICI NON SI CORREVA
V
V
F
F
8.I GIOCHI OLIMPICI ANTICHI NON VENIVANO FATTI IN INVERNO V F