Olimpics
Olimpics
INTRODUCTION
Today, the Olympic Games are the world's largest pageant of athletic skill and competitive spirit. They are also displays of nationalism, commerce, and politics. These two opposing elements of the Olympics are not a modern invention. The conflict between the Olympic movement's high ideals and the commercialism or political acts which accompany the Game.
Olympic Games
The ancient Olympics were rather different from the modern Games. There were fewer events and only free men …showed first 75 words of 1229 total…
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