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The Greece invented athletic contests and held
them in honour of the gods. The Pythian games took place every four years near
Delphi. Only rich people could train the horses and hire the riders and the
drivers for horse and chariot races. Philip two of Macedon's horse won the
Olympic flat race in 356 BC, supposedly on the day of his son Alexander's
birth. Philip went on to achieve victory in the four-horse chariot event at a
number of Olympiads. The standards were twelve laps or over nine kilometers.
The chariots were light two-wheeled. They must have bounced around at the
driven speed. The driver wore no protective things. That's all of the
information for the horse race. Men talking part in the games naked or wearing
a thong.
The most famous games were those at Olympiads, a
town in south-western Greece. This took place every four years, in honor of
Zeus. No women were allowed to watch the games. Poetry dating from around five
hundred fifty BC. The games were greatly expanded from a one-day festival of
athletics and wrestling to, in 472 BC, five days with many events. The first
day of the festivals was devoted to sacrifices. On the second day, the
foot-race the main event of the game took place in the stadium. On other days
wrestling, boxing and the pancratium a combination of the two were held. Boxing
became more interesting. In horse racing in which each person owned his horse.
After the horse racing came a series of five events sprinting, long-jumping,
javelin-hurling, discus-throwing, and wrestling.