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The stadium, also known as the Kallimarmaro, is a renowned spot that dates all the way back to 330 B.C. Coca-Cola under fire ...
A view of the ancient ruins of the Stadium at Olympia with ... of Olympia was remote, nestled in Greece’s southwest corner 210 miles from Athens, so to get there most spectators had traipsed ...
In 2004, Greece hosted the Summer Olympics ... seven feet under facilities built for the Olympics. In the fall of last year, the Olympic Stadium in Athens, which was remodeled for the games ...
in south west Greece. Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take part. Image caption, The ancient Olympic athletes would enter the stadium by ...
Here are some of the highlights of the 1896 Olympics in Athens, when Spyridon Louis won the race that would come to be known as the marathon in the first modern revival of the ancient Greek sports ...
Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece. Running ... And this is the stadium where it all happens. Now these guys are just training so they’re allowed ...
Greece, honoring the historical birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games, which date back to 776 BC. Once lit, 600 torchbearers carried the flame through 41 Greek towns to the Panathenaic Stadium in ...
ANCIENT OLYMPIA (Greece), September 29 (Itar ... Greek territory and on October 5 will bring the Olympic flame to the Panathinaikos stadium in Athens, where in 1896 the first modern Olympic ...