Title: Sports and the Ancient Greece Olympics
Headings: Sports and the Ancient Greece Olympics

Content: The Greeks had four national sports festivals, where athletes from different city states competed against one another. The most important of the sports contests was the Olympic Games. These were played at Olympia, every four years, in honour of Zeus. On the first day of the Olympics, sacrifices of grain, wine, and lambs were made to Zeus. Olympic Games
Greece is the home country of the Olympic Games. Olympia, a Greek city, was known to be a very important centre of athletics. The Olympic games, held there every four years, were so important in Greek life that they were used as the basis for the Greek calendar. When was the first ever Olympic Games? The first recorded Ancient Olympic Games were in 776 BC. Where were the Olympic Games held in Greece?