History Of The Olympics

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He was often awarded a cash bonus by his townspeople; sometimes a pension for life. Additionally, he was welcomed as a contestant at other festivals where the prizes were often large amounts of cash. In the beginning the athletes were aristocrats, as they had the free time necessary to train for the games...
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Additionally, they had the finances required to travel to the competition every four years. As time went on however, the games began to open up to the less fortunate. Villages and towns began to raise money to sponsor their own athletes, much like the corporations of today who sponsor Olympic teams...
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Ancient Olympics in Greek One of the more intriguing true stories about ancient Greece and the Olympics of ancient Greece would have to be that during the Olympic Games, all fighting stopped...	4 / 1041
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