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This was the name for the race track in the Ancient Olympics. With a length of 780 meters, it was the largest sport area.
A) Stadium
B) Hippodrome
C) Gymnasium
D) Ampitheatre
What is (B) Hippodrome?
For a long time, archeologists have not been able to trace it. Recent research with geo-radar and geo-magnetism, however, has located the hippodrome in the area between the stadion and the valley of the Alpheios river.
A Greek hippodrome was not a complicated construction. For a simple race track, a large flat terrain, with at the start and finish a column as a turning point for the chariots, suffices. As in the stadion, the spectators of the Olympic horse races stood on slopes along the track, a natural hill to the north, an artificial earthen slope to the south and west. At the start, a complicated starting mechanism made sure all the horses started at the same time.