Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Olympians
Anmerkungen:
- Today the olympians, or the olympics, happen every four years
- Today the olympic games, or the olympics, happen
every four years and are held in a differente country
each time
- Top atheletes from around the world como togueter to test the killer skiils and
determination in individual
- Olympic gold medals, which are given
only to the winner
- Howewer, in order to understand
the modern
- The games were a mix of athletic skill and religion
- They were celebrated in a festival which
was dedicated to
- the greek god zeus.
- The olympics were also a time of political
calm
- Athletes travaled from all over
the ancient greek world to
compete in events
- According to legend, a
runner named coroebus was
the first olympic champion
- He was a local cook who was fast enought to
defeat all the other competitors
- Over the centuries, the olympic games
developed and change.
- And competition became more serious
- Olympic rules were created which
required olympians
- They had to train with expert
judges for the 30 days before
the completed
- They also started to include the
pentathlon events
- Winning an event in the ancient
olympics was quite differente from
winning one in todays games
- Athletes recive gold, silver
and bronze medals for
finishing
- The prize for winning was not
a medal, but an olive wreath
- Is was another 1,500 years before the
olympic games
- The first modern international olympic games were held in
Athenas in 1896. Since