Hello again blog readers in my last post you learned about Greek athletes and their lives. In this post you the reader will learn about Olympic events. First off the Olympic events continually changed over time. Some Olympic games were even banned over time. Can you believe that. No one even knows how the Olympics started not even me. A lot of people thought it was to keep men fit and also for military skills. Here is another awesome fact athletes first wore shorts but after a while they started to compete naked. There are three stories behind this. The first story is a runner from Athens was about to win a but then his shorts fell off and he tripped on his shorts. The ref made a new rule that no one can wear clothes. The second story is a runner from Megara lost his shorts half way through the race and still went on to win. Pretty funny stories right. The third one is not really a story it is more of an alternative which is people just thought Greeks like to show off their body. So more on the events, one event out of six events is running. There are 4 more events but I am sharing my top six. There were three running races one was called a Stade which was a sprint of one length of the stadium. The second race called the Diaulos was also a sprint race but it was two lengths of the stadium. The third running race was called the Dolichos were runners ran twenty or twenty four lengths of the stadium. A fun fact is if you one all three races you were known as triastes. The second sport was long jump this is an event where athletes have weights in there hand and jump as far as they can. The third event is discus this is an event where athletes throw a disc made of either bronze lead or marble so they were hard to through. The forth event is javelin like discus the javelins were different from ones today and in this event athletes throw a javelin. The fifth event is boxing. In boxing athletes try to either surrender, knock out, or kill the opponent. Different from modern day boxing any blow was allowed. In the sixth sport wrestling Greek wrestlers could do anything but bite or put their fingers into soft parts of the body. That is it for the events and my final blog post hope you liked it.