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Old 06-24-2008, 05:17 PM
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Old 06-24-2008, 06:21 PM
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were's the Pankration, Boxing, Wrestling, Chariot Racing and the Hoplite sprint???
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Gmellos,

I believe those were all later additions and not part of the earliest Games.
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Local Trachinian men made the comment "that when the Persians finally got around to firing off their arrows there would be so many of them that they would block out the sun."

The Spartan, Dienekes said "What our friend from Trachis says is good news, for if the Medes hide the sun then we shall be fighting in the shade."
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Old 06-24-2008, 07:04 PM
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Heres the official site for the games and tells more about it. I seems that it has been ongoing since 1996.

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~clscs2...er/enggame.htm
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