For up to 16 hours, spectators would be on their feet (the root meaning of the ancient Greek ... in the Olympics program, some are familiar today—running, wrestling, boxing, javelin, discus.

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece. Running ... No one needs that. The throwing events are discus: athletes hurl a heavy diskos made of bronze ...

The first Olympic Games took place in 776BC The very first Olympics were part of an ancient Greek festival ... ancient Olympic Games — like the discus throw — are events that still take ...