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Published: 01.12.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Ancient Greek Olympics', 1.
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Extract

Reporting today's Olympic games is like a technological masterpiece.
The athletes compete in many events, their times and scores are tallied and
sent worldwide by satellites and high-tech computers within seconds. Each
event is carefully watched and recorded with a sense of history. There was no
such sense of history or records when the first Games began in Ancient
Greece.
The first recorded champion in Greece was a sprinter, Coroebus, he
was a cook in a near by Greek city called, Elis. He ran naked on a sanded
course in front of tho…

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