Instead, for many athletes, the Olympics is a time that tests and grows ... telling jokes and laughing,” said the Rev. Anton Gelyasov, a Greek Orthodox priest, to Religion News Service.

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"The people of Greece are paying more now than ... Angelopoulos says the efforts of Greeks for the Olympics "transformed the way the world sees us, and the way we see one another." ...

Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take ... The main event at the Olympics was not a sporting event, but a sacrifice. On the third day of ...

Dr Judith Swaddling is an Assistant Keeper in the Greek and Roman Department at the ... consultant for a documentary video on the ancient Olympics made for the International Olympic Committee.

When the ancient Greek Olympics concept was revived by French aristocrat Pierre de Coubertin in the late 19th century he saw it as a celebration of gentlemanly athleticism “with female applause ...

in a sense a rebirth that was a tribute to the ancient games staged by the Greeks in Olympia and the spirit that it embodied, the Olympics has only expanded. Billions of people around the world ...