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The Olympic Games
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How the Olympic Games Started!
The Olympics started around 770 BC, in Olympia. (By the way, the next bit of this story is NOT true.) Zeus (the god of all gods) sent Heracles in a race with a few other people, Heracles won and was crowned. And that was one of the first Olympic races. This is one of the Greek Myths, the myth says that Heracles planted an Olive tree which the ancient Greeks used to make wreaths out of. Olympia
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The Ancient Greek Olympic Games
Once a lady went into the men’s Olympics without anybody knowing. But when people found out they were going to kill her. The reason they didn’t kill her is because her Father was a famous boxer. Place head here
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The Events They had a lot of events such as :
Sprinting, Boxing, Discus throwing, Chariot racing and Horse racing !
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2008 Olympics The 2008 Olympics were held in Beijing
and the Chinese came first. The Olympics start every 4 years. They have stuff like Swimming, Archery and that’s only 2 of them there are loads more.
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