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Olympic sports

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type of sport with events contested at the Olympic Games

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As to trials of strength, single combats in armour, or battles between two and two, or of any number up to ten, shall take the place of wrestling and the heavy exercises. And there must be umpires, as there are now in wrestling, to determine what is a fair hit and who is conqueror.
Plato, Laws
Close in meaning to Olympic sports; the term itself is not named.
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The Treasurers keep it in the Acropolis until the Panathenaea, when they measure it out to the Commissioners of Games, and they again to the victorious competitors. The prizes for the victors in the musical contest consist of silver and gold, for the victors in manly vigour, of shields, and for the victors in the gymnastic contest and the horse-race, of oil.
Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution
Close in meaning to Olympic sports; the term itself is not named.
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You prefer the kite because it is less tiring and there is no danger. You are doubly wrong. Kite-flying is a sport for women, but every woman will run away from a swift ball. Their white skins were not meant to be hardened by blows and their faces were not made for bruises.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
Close in meaning to Olympic sports; the term itself is not named.
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