Ancient Olympic Games

The Ancient Olympic Games
Sarike Beuk, Megan van Gerwen, Jente Schaap, Sergin Yücesan

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1. It started as a festival to honour the Gods. With all kinds of sports like
boxing, chariot racing, long jump, javlin, discus, pankration.
2.
They are not close to each other.

3.
a) Day 1 - the Olympic oath of the athletes and of the organizers in front of the statue
of Zeus in the council house (the meeting place of the Olympic council)
Day 2 – The horse racing and the pentathlon (athletics)
Day 3 – ceremony for hero Pelops (the Peloponnesus), interaction of all participants, the
organizers (hellanodikai) and the ambassadors from all the cities plus the sacrifice of one-
hundred cows to Zeus
Day 4 – the running and fight-sport
Day 5 – a dinner for the victors in the house of magistrates
b) Horse racing The horse races took were in the hippodrome. There were
3 different types of horse races: four-horse chariot, two-
horse chariot and horse with rider. The riding area had to be sufficiently wide for a large
number of participants. Two turning points were built at the ends of the track. These were
the most dangerous points because everyone wanted to take the inside of the bend. There
were no seats for the spectators. In Olympia, a starting mechanism ensured that all horses
started at the same time.
Pentathlon There were various events: discus, the long jump, javelin
throw, run and wrestling. The five events were held in the
course of an afternoon. The Greeks admired the bodies of pentathletes because they had the
ideal length, strength and speed. The order of the events and the way in which the winner
was decided will still be discussed. It is certain that the last event was struggling. The first
three events were probably discus, the long jump and javelin, which can only be found in the
pentathlon. Then running was the fourth event. No text describes exactly how the winner
was decided. Only one thing is certain: the final winner had to win three events.
Running: Running was the most important Olympic sport. Until the
Roman times, the winner of the stadium race gave his name
to the Olympiad in which he won. More and more running events were added. Like the
diaulos, this is twice the distance from the stadium. Sprinters were often able to win both the
stadium and the diaulos.
Combat sports (fight sports) - The combat sports were done naked, there are 3 combat
sports: wrestling, boxing and pankration (a mix of wrestling and boxing).
Wrestling: Upright wrestling: you need to make you opponent fall 3 times.
Group wrestling: you could only win if the opponent submitted by pointing up his
index finger to the referee.
Boxing: Boxers bound leather thongs around their knuckles, on the inside was
wool and on the outside hard straps of leather. You were not allowed
to hold your opponent.
Pankration: Everything was allowed except biting, gouging (stabbing the
opponent in the face) and attacking the genitals.
4.
a) Temple of Hera, temple of Zeus
b)
5.
a) Leonidaion (8)
b) Prytaneion (17)
c) Echo-hal (11)
d)
6.
a) In 393 or 394 A.D.
b) The one that legally abolished The Olympic Games is emperor Theodoris, he reaffirmed his
determination to outlaw the worship of pagan gods by completely prohibiting paganism, and
in doing so, abolishing the Olympic Games.
c) In Lake Placid.
7.
a+b) There was a battle in marathon that Athena won, and a messenger run to Athena to tell the
people that they won and then they made up a run of 40 km for around.
c) In 1908 they made it 42,195 km.
d) Because it was from the Olympic stadium in London to the royal seat of Windsor Palace. The
road of 40 km was from the Olympic stadium in London to Windsor Palace, but the queen
wanted that it will end in front of her seat so then it was 42 km and 195 meters.
8.
a) Citius, Altius, Fortius in today's language it means: Swifter, Higher, Stronger.
b) The five rings stand for the 5 continents and the 6 colors on all national flags.
9.
a) For Zeus.
b) They end the war.
c) They began the years again after every Olympian game.
10.
a) Pythian Games, Nemean Games, Isthmian. And they’re for the gods: Apollo, Zeus
& Heracles, Poseidon.
b)
c)
Olympia
Delphi
Nemea
Isthmia
d) The Hera Games or Heraia Games and they were held in the stadium at Olympia.
11.
a) Summer games
London
Tokyo
Los Angeles
Paris
Athens
b) 1. First only Greek people could participate.

2. No female were allowed
3. First they had 1 winner of whole the Olympics
4. First they didn’t had winter Olympics and summer Olympic, they had ‘The Olympics’
5. First the Olympic Games were always in the place Olympia
6. Wars were postponed during whole The Olympic Games
7. There were cows who were sacrificed for their God Zeus
8. In the Modern Olympic Games more lands participate and there are more sports
12.
Sergins sport is tennis and that is part of the modern Olympic Games.
Sarike’s sport is athletics and that is part of the modern Olympic Games.
Jente’s sport is horse-riding and that is part of the modern Olympic Games.
Megans sport is soccer and that is also part of the modern Olympic Games.
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games.html
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Sarike Beuk, Megan van Gerwen, Jente Schaap, Sergin Yücesan

They are not close to each other.

b) 1. First only Greek people could participate.

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