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The Ancient Olympics

You're Dead to Me

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What Did They Really Win?

Vioferse: Sparta has a kind of uneasy relationship with olympia, because it was supposed to be this kind of international sanctuary. The spartans were famed as fighters, you know, physical training all the time. So does that mean that they were always cleaning up at the olympic? Inta, they turn up and beat the crap out of every one else. But no, the records of all those winners dating back to seven, seven, six b c show that nog the spartans weren't the winners. In in fact, quite early on, in the early decades of the games, lots of winners came from southern italy and sic

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