Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece ... And javelin: athletes hurl a wooden spear as far as they can. Fun if you like that kind of thing.
It could seat 50,000 spectators! The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, in south west Greece. Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch ...