The Olympic games is a popular game that has lasted for thousands of years, and it still goes in from today! The games that the old time had it barley had anything to go by but they do have some games that are fun but highly dangerous. The games that the had where running,long jumping,boxing, and a few other games too. The most popular game they have back then is the chariot racing and only med could do it. We keep records better than Greek do today because they do different styles that we do and we don't use what Greek does. So we are going to begin with on how chariot racing was played. When they did chariot racing the men had to be naked and could be the only ones to race. Women can't race because it was a rule to the Olympics but they could own the chariot. If the person was wealthy, they could afford a good chariot and healthy horses to have a better chance to win. Today now that it has been stopped i think is because of how many hazards it has to compete. …show more content…
You would need to be training since you where little because its ten months of training till you can compete in really advanced games. There is the Paidotribai then there is the Gymnastai and also Aleiptai. The Paidotribai is the athletes with physical exercises, the Gymnastai is trained with athletic then last the Aleiptai is massaged the athletes muscles. Those where the three athlete categories that you will can choose to go by. Around the four year period between two of the games,it was known as an Olympiad. First one spanned the first year from the summer all the way to the 776 BC to 772 BC. Those period times where some what awesome to ancient Greek writers and historians as it means to measure of time. Greeks had many ways of recording their records they do it on stone mostly too. The Greeks identified each Olympiad by its year but they also have referred to it according to the name of an victorious