Ancient greek olympics

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There was no such sense of history or records when the first Games began in Ancient Greece The first recorded champion in Greece was a sprinter, Coroebus, he was a cook in a near by Greek city called, ElisHe ran naked on a sanded course in front of thousands of spectators The course was about 630 feet long "or one stad-from which the word stadium was derived." His victory won him a wreath of olive leaves That was in 776 BC and this year became very important to later Greek HistoriansIn 300 BC all time was dated by Olympiads, a time span of four years between the games