Everyone, no matter what pace with the times, are sports, to know them. While some people may not care, or follow them very closely, the mere presence is enough to prove the popularity of the competition. Originally, the event was televised event less and more time for a memorial and celebration. Participants and spectators to use the Olympics as a way to honor the gods, who are often credited with starting the events in the first place. First known as the Olympic Games from around 776 BC, the events continued every four years, until about 425 AD - more than 1,000 years. In 1800, were collected, and become what they are today.
But what were all the way back when? The first events the athletes participated in boxing, wrestling, discus and javelin, running, jumping and equestrian events in style. The first known Olympic champion was none other than Coroebus. Historians know a lot about the Olympic Games through to survive in the early historical documents and other artifacts from the era. Considered as a pagan practice of Christianity, is said to have been closed by Theodisius II in the fifth century. But when he returned near the end of the 19th century, came back with a vengeance.
