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The Small English Town That Launched the Modern Olympics
Despite the Greek roots of the word “Olympic,” the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics will bear little resemblance to the sports tournaments in ancient Greece. The ancient origins of the Olympics can be traced back to a 776 B.C. footrace (known as a hoplitodromos) won by a cook named Koroibos of Elis, according to Jeremy Fuchs, sports journalist and author of the Olympic history book Total Olympics. Participants donned helmets and shields for these kinds of footraces, which were often religious tributes to Zeus. They drew some 40,000 spectators to Olympia where there is a statue of the Greek god. Cow sacrifices were the norm. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] But the Olympics we know

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