Explanation template : How the Olympics came to be.

What are the olympics? The olympics are sporty or athletic games. The olympic games are the world's biggest sporting spectacle. They are divided into a summer and winter game, held every four years by a single city. More than 10,000 athletes take part in the summer events alone.

                                                                                       How the olympics began?  

Although the ancient games were staged in olympia, Greece, from 776 BC through 393 AD, it took 1503 years for the olympics to return. The first modern olympic were held in athens, Greece in 1896. The man responsible for this rebirth was a french man named Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who presented the idea in 1894. The idea of the torch or olympic flame was first inaugurated in the 1928 olympic games. They were known, however, torch relays in other ancient Greek athletic festivals including those held at athens.      

The first ancient olympic games started in 776 BC. they were dedicated to the olympian gods and were staged on the ancient plains of olympia. Olympia, the site of the ancient olympic games. According to greek mythology, is the island of pelops the founder of the olympic games.

Olympia functioned as a meeting place for worship and other religious and political practices as early as the 10th century BC. The central part of olympic was dominated by the majestic

temple of zeus.

The olympic games were strictly linked to the religious competition of cult of zeus. They had a secular character and aimed to display the physical qualities evolution of the performances acco. The marathon was not an event of the ancient olympic games.

The marathon is a modern event that was first introduced in the modern olympic games of 1896 in athens, a race from marathon northeast of athens to the olympic stadium, a distance of 40 kilometers.