O ly miathe site of the men's olympics, provided an opportunity for female athletes. Every four years the Sixteen Women and other married women organized The Heraea Games for maiden competitors. Pausanias indicates these games consisted of fo
oThe first Olympic games were held in Ancient Greece in the city state of Athens. The year was 776 B.C. There was a flame burning in the honor of Zeus, lord of all the gods. The very first Olympic games only held one event. event was the marathon. We stayed around for awhile to see the next Olympic games and they had several more events.T he Olympics expanded to wrestling, boxing, horse racing,long jumping, javelin, and chariot races. Early Ol
ympic victors became national heroes and celebrated in music and poetry. Definitely not like today's sports heroes who try to make as money as they possibly can!
After signing the contract, Mr Simitsek said that provision of medical services would be of direct help to the success of the Games. He went on: �We are honoured that the private sector of medicine should have hitched its wagon to the great event and that we shall be reaching the Olympic Games together. On our side we lay emphasis on health services to the Olympic amily and the spectators. In health, as in all our other individual undertakings, we have raised the bar very high, but success in a one-way track for us all�
Mr Handakas replied: �We are very anxious to have this partnership, not because we have a prestige site next to the Olympic Venues, but because for Athens to have taken on the Olympic Games is in our view the great national goal, and a unique chance for our country to show the world the values of peace and culture that make for direct and effective communication between human beings and nations�. He added that the members of Iaso�s board of directors had unanimously voted to take part in the 2004 Volunteers Programme.