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how many ahtletic festivals

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146

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names of the 4 crown(great) and what theyre naemd after

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PINO

pythian - Apollo- between olympics

isthmian - poseidan - even

Nemean - zues- odd

Olympian - 4 years - zues

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who are helloindikai

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the judges for the crown festivals

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heraea

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the olympics for young woman held months before the olympic games.

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what did the olympic truce do

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those travelling to the olympic games were safe from war. but war still went on, and if you broke the truce olympia annihalated your state

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statues for cheaters and winnners

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olympian games they had statues for cheaters in the front and winners in the back

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married or adult women couldnt..

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go to the games or they were thrown off mount chronos

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hercules yardage

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hercules said to hav ebeen able to run 200 yards in one breath

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the runnning blocks for track events is called

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balbis

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ahtletes in the olympics weernt amateur they were

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proffessionals

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who stoopped the ancient olympic

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roman emperor theodosius 1st in393 AD because they were converting to catholisism and wanted to get rid of the paygan stuff, but other shit went on undergorund but for 20 years they only played the STADE

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Robert Dover - what games and when, for who to participate

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Cotswold Olympic 1612

  • for any class of person (lawyer at party)
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first non coubertin meeting with olympic label

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cotswold olympic games 1612

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who dressed fancy with a horse

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robert dover cotswold games

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Much Wenlock Olympic Games who invented it and when. and when were they hosted

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w.p brookes - 1850
annually in village of Much wenlock

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which pseudo olympic resembled the olympics the most and why

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much wenlock games - becuase of the pagaentry, medal honouring, parade andlag

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what gaems did coubertin see and when

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1889 saw the Much Wenlock Games and was delighted

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when were the morpeth games and who were they for

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1882 they got their name but fr had the games in 1871-1958 and honored reveredn grey for the mining community

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only psuedo olympics with gambling and prizes was

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morpeth games

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how many zappian games

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4 zappian games

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who invented the zappian games

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evangelis zappas donated millions to make the games he was albania and lived in greek a veteran

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evangelis zappas tombs

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3 tombs

romania (body for the first 4 years)
albania rest of body -
greece - head @ the zappeion exibit

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coubertin coppied the burrying of his head and the pageantry from w.b brookes wheren does he want his body to be buried

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in the IOC

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24
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who funded the first olympic games

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Georges averoff

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How much did Geoghres Averoff give

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1 millipon drachma

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where and wehn was the first olympic games

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1896 in athens greece PANTHETICAN STADIUM

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how long was the first olympics

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9 days long

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28
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how many people and how many sports

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245 people, 9 sports

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who was the technical head of state that opened the games

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king george 1

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30
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first national sponsor of the games

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kodak

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31
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what did the winners get

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1st place - silver medal crown of olives and diploma (still given out today)
2nd place - bronze medal , crown of laurel and a diploma

32
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was there an anthem or ceremony at the first olympic games

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NO

33
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gymnastics was popular at the first games T or F

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false, nobody was in the stadium for it

34
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who won the first marathon

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spiridion louis -

35
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where were ahtletes and heads of states when it came to their places on the podium

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ahtletes were on the ground and the head of states were on the podium

36
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where and when were the second olympics

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1900 paris france

37
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how long did the second olympics last and hpw many peolple and events

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5 months , 1225 and women now a bit, and 86 sports/events

38
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prinstein did what

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came second in long jump and didnt even show up because syracuse college wouldnt let him do sport on Sundays

39
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margereat ives admas won gold first in what

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golf 47

40
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what did sweden and denmark do in the second olympics

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sweden and denmark joined teams for tug of war, they beat america and america protested that they were fighting two teams insteead of one

41
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third olympics host city and when

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st Louis. , i 1904

42
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how long was the htird olympics, how many people and how many events

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seven months, 689 people , 89 events, more woman and over 500 from usa and 50 from canada

43
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no evidence that who responded ot coubertins letters

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william mckinley or theodore roosevelt

44
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what athletes couldnt compete at the third olympics

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u of chicago athletes

45
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who was the annonymous author putting out newwspapers for publicity of the olympic games

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coubertin

46
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why did st louis want the olympic games to be hosted at their city

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they wanted the olympics in st louis because they had the worlds fiar held there, and didnt want the olympics to distract from it so they would make it theirs

47
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poster for the 1904 olympics said what

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sadi only worlds fair and nothing about the olympics

48
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anthropological days

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after the 1904 games ended, people critized the games and said they were for ethnic minorities.

coubertin said that it was discrimantory but didnt even go to the events

49
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anthropological competitons

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the people of colour were told their scoreds were real but arent seen as real today

50
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bore war was

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Africa vs british

51
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fred lorz 1904

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won the marathon but he htiched a ride on a truck so he got disqualified

52
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Thomas Hicks 1904

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recieved the gold medal for the maratho but cheated using egg white and styrchnine or rat poison

53
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felix carajavalal

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hithchiked to st louis cause he gambled aaway his money and raced in boots and long pants that he cut

54
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lentau and yamasami were who

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first black africans to compete in the olympic , the marathon

55
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why were the 1906 interim gmaes held

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ioc thought the games were loosing their luster after two “disaaasters’ paris and st louis

56
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did coubertin attend 1906

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coubertin did not attend the 1906 gaems becaue he didnt aprrove of them being held

57
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oprimary reason the IOC supported the 1906 gmes to be in athens greece

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they wanted to appease greece and make up for not having greeece as the permanant host city of the games

58
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interim games 1906 where were they held and how many nations and people

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athens greece, 20 nations 800 people, some chicks

59
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are the interim games of 1906 officail

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the 1906 games are see as unofficial but weer a complete success

60
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what games held the first american national team

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1906 interim games

61
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theodore rooselvelt told sullivan of the american team

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uncle sam is all right

62
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wha tmagazine was happy about the 1906 american team and olypics

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the nation magazine

63
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who won the marathon at the 1906 games

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Canadian williamSherring

shamrock athletic club of ontario

64
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where were the fourth olympcics adn whe

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london great britain 1908

65
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who was supposed to hold the 1908 games

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Rome but mount vesuvius erupted

66
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what were the first games to award a gold medal instead of a silver for first place

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1908 great birtain

67
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why was the marathon 26 miles 385 yards

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the start was moved back to give the kings grandkids a better view to windsor castle and the extra 385 yards was so it ended in fornt of the queen

68
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john hayes and doranado pietri

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pitrie fainted and got assisted to the finsih line and won first place as a brit,

hayes got second as an american and protested, the protest was upheld adn america won

queen gave pietri a golden cup and suspended the games for a day just to do so, he was on the postcard the next day

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politics in the 1908 games

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finland had to march under russion flag

american didnt dip thier flag when passing by the king and said the flag doesnt dip to any earlthy king

america didnt do tug of war becuase liverpool had steel spikes

400 meter sprint had 3 americans and one british

70
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where and wehn were the fifth olympic games

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stockholm sweden in 1912
2000 people
102 events 28 nations

71
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where was the first olympic stadium built specificically for an olympcis

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stockholm sweden 1912

72
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what olympics was the first to use technology, photo finish

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stockhoom sweden 1912

73
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what olympics first had womans swimming

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sweden 1912 , they had a den mother

74
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wehen did japan first participate in the olympics

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1912 stockholm sweden

75
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who was jim thorpe

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decathlete, pentathlete from america in sweden, was considered the greatest by the king of sweden but took money for a baseball game and got siqualified the next year. 1982 ioc gave his medals to his daughter adn reinstated him

class bias is what finished off thorpe

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