What were the sports in the Ancient Olympics?
What major factors are different between the two time periods?
Fun Facts
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Involves 2 or 4 horses and sometimes even mules.
What is chariot racing?
100
Before, the Games used to be located in one place every 4 years and didn't include different countries.
What is the Olympics not only taking place in Greece and only including Greeks?
100
This representation of the Olympics has 5 rings, and each ring represents the five significant continents. At least one color of the five rings is on the flag of every country in the world.
What is the Olympic Flag?
200
This sport is still part of the Modern Olympics and it has a lot of physical combat.
What is wrestling?
200
Gradually, people started to realize that this type of person deserved more rights and opportunities. So in the 1900's, they competed in their first games.
What is women competing in the modern Olympics?
200
The Olympics is held every certain amount of years.
What is Olympics held every 4 years?
300
This sport is still very popular today, and is combined with other sports in the modern Olympics.
What is running?
300
In the Ancient Olympics, if you won, it almost immortalized you, especially since they were fewer victors you were hard to forget. Now you're honored for a couple months after the Olympics if you made a big impact- but then forgotten because there are some many other victors.
What is the after-effect of the victors of the Games?
300
After years of discrimination against them participating at the Olympics, in the year 1900, they finally got a spot in the Games.
What is women finally participating in the Olympics?
400
This type of sport involves throwing a circle-shaped object, like a flying saucer.
What is discus?
400
Right now, the Olympics wouldn't stop something of a higher importance; like a war.
What was the level of importance of the Olympics?
400
James B. Connolly brought fame to the US by winning the hop, step, and jump event at the ____ Olympics.
Who was the first Modern Olympic champion?
500
In this sport you used to fight without gloves and the result was many broken fingers.
What is boxing?
500
It used to be that Zeus was the main focus of the Ancient Olympics. And each event some how honored the gods. Now, our focus is bringing countries together through sport.
What is a non-religious Olympics?
500
This representation of the Olympics in Latin is "Citius, Aitius, Fortius".
What is the Olympic Motto?
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