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The first ancient Olympic Games can be traced back to Olympia in 776 BC. Full passion and extraordinary feats of athletic endeavour, the Olympic Games were the sporting, social and cultural highlight of the Ancient Greek calendar for almost 12 centuries.

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776 BC—First Olympic Games, according to Diodorus Siculus (of the 1st century BC). The games would continue to 394 AD. The Olympiad year would later be used by historians to reckon dates in a unified fashion where different Greek calendar systems were in use. 773 BC— Ashur-Dan III succeeds his brother Shalmaneser IV as king of Assyria. [3]

The ancient Olympic Games began in the year 776 BC, when Koroibos, a cook from the nearby city of Elis, won the stadion race, a foot race 600 feet long. The stadion track at Olympia is shown here. According to some literary traditions, this was the only athletic event of the games for the first 13 Olympic festivals or until 724 BC.

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It is held once every four years. Because of the widespread popularity of the Olympic Games, the ancient Greek 776 BC is such a significant time. Only one athletic event was a part of the ancient Olympics for the first 13 Olympic games until 724 BC when more events started to be added to …

2010年1月6日 · The first written records of the ancient Olympic Games date to 776 B.C., when a cook named Coroebus won the only event—a 192-meter footrace called the stade (the origin of the modern “stadium ...

2018年3月13日 · The ancient Olympic Games were a sporting event held every four years at the sacred site of Olympia, in the western Peloponnese, in honour of Zeus, the supreme god of the Greek religion. The games, held from 776 BCE to 393 CE, involved participants and spectators from all over Greece and even beyond.