Ancient Greek Olympic Athletes

Winter Olympic Games, Flame Lighting Ceremony

Praying for the sun: What to know about the flame-lighting ceremony for the Winter Olympics

At a temple in Ancient Olympia, a flame is drawn from the sun to begin its journey to the Winter Games. The choreographed ceremony inspired by ancient Greece is designed to link the original games to today’s global competition.

Greek Reporter · 4d

Olympic Flame Lighting Ceremony Moved Indoors Due to Weather

Neos Kosmos · 3d

Greece flame-lighting ceremony for Winter Games forced indoors

Yahoo

How to eat like an ancient Olympic athlete: figs, feta, and liver

Olympians' diets have evolved since the ancient games, when athletes were mostly vegetarian. For his "Tasting History" YouTube series, Max Miller recreated an ancient Greek dish. The recipe ...

Greek Reporter

How Ancient Greeks Trained the Gladiators of Rome

Ancient Greeks prepared Roman gladiators for violent contests, although these were quite different from the Olympics the ...

Agence France-Presse on MSN

IOC chief Coventry in tears as 2026 Winter Games torch relay sets off

New International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Kirsty Coventry fought back tears on Wednesday as she urged nations to come ...

Reuters

Bolt to star in update to ancient Greek Olympic ode

LONDON (Reuters) - London Mayor Boris Johnson will read out an Olympic Ode in ancient Greek composed by an Oxford academic to celebrate the athletes and personalities of the London 2012 Games ...

Snopes.com

Women Weren't Allowed to Attend Ancient Olympics?

According to historical sources, "women" — specifically meaning, in that time and culture, married, childbearing females — were not allowed to attend or participate in the original Olympic Games in ...

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