Way back when, the Greeks played the reeeal Olympics, the ones we copy today. A lot was the same, they held them every four years, something we still do today. They played sports in their Olympics, but it was also a competition of music and Greek literature. Races, discus throws, javelin throws, long jumping, boxing, wrestling, and chariot racing were some of the sports they did. I don't know too much about the ones we have today. We have more more modern sports and most of them are individual. When that empire was declining, their games stopped and didn't pick back up again until the late 1800's. Olympic games used to be all jumbled up into one group and meant only for amateurs but now we have them separated into seasons and professionals can play in them too. It's a really big international thing now and there's even Special Olympics for disabled people to compete in. We have so so so many sports to compete in: archery, baseball, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, diving, equestrian sports, fencing, field hockey, soccer, gymnastics, handball, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, triathlon, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting, wrestling, biathlon, ice hockey, lueging, skeleton sledding, snowboarding, ice skating, skiing, and bobsledding. (That list came off the website.) One of my favorite movies is Cool Runnings :) 
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