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Original Olympic track, ancient Olympia

Original Olympic track, ancient Olympia. English tourist family lunge for their own Olympic victory at Olympia's original start/finish line in the stadium. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet - or Stadion - from which we get the word 'stadium'. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past.

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Original Olympic track, ancient Olympia. English tourist family lunge for their own Olympic victory at Olympia's original start/finish line in the stadium. Hercules is said to have paced out the 600 Greek feet - or Stadion - from which we get the word 'stadium'. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past.
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