nobody knows exactly when the olympic games began,buthistorians think that first games were in 776BC .athletes all over greece came to compete in a town callfd olympia. there was only one event. it was a running race called the "stade". the first olympic champion was coroebus of elis. he was a cook
the games were very popular. soon there were more vent, for example,wrestling and horse races. all the athletes in the ancient olypics were men and,when they competed, they wore no clothes. the games took place four years, for a thousand years. in AD394 the roman emperor theodosius stopped them for religious reasons