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olympics
Title: olympics
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 435 | Pages: 1.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
olympics
Originally the Olympic games were known to be religious festivals from 776 B.C.
until 393 A.D. This was so because the Roman emperor Theodosius I banned all pagan
festivals. These festivals celebrated the Greek god Zeus. The ancient Olympic Games
lasted nearly 1,200 years until it ceased. Then in the late 1800’s a frenchman by the name
of Baron Pierre de Couhbertin practically revived the Olympics into what we know today
as the modern Olympics. In 1896 …showed first 75 words of 435 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 435 total…XIII Tokyo, JPN 1996 XXVI Atlanta, USA
1944 XIV London, GBR 2000 XXVII Sydney, AUS
2004 XXVII Athens, GRE
Similar to yet different in some ways, the Ancient Olympics and Modern Olympics
have given many different nations the equality needed for unity and fair play in the
Olympic Games. Even though it started out with one nation, one man quickly molded the
Games into an entire group of nations competing, not just for the gold, but also for the
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