To promote friendship and integration between peoples through healthy sports competitions, the Greeks created the Olympia games. Licurgo (king of Sparta), Iphea (king of Aelida) and Clysthenes (king of Pissa) signed   a treaty in the temple of Hera.

This treaty provided for the games to be held    every four years in July or August in Olympia, on the slopes of Mount Kronion. They lasted five days, a period of "holy truce" throughout Greece. The winners would receive as prisa palm leaf and a crown made with branches of an existing olive tree near the altar of Zeus.

Athletes competed naked and had to be free citizens who had never committed crime, such as murder, to participate.   At the same time, the women participated in another competition in honor of the goddess Hera (sister and wife of Zeus), in which they wore loose hair and short tunics.

And these games were so respected that Felipe, king of Macedónia, even paid a heavy fine for having prevented the passage of two athletes who were heading to Olympia. Until the thirteenth competition, the Race was the only sport they practice of. The Stadium of Olympia had the form of "U", with an extension of 200 meters and capacity for 45 000 people. 

In the fifth century before Christ 

there were already 

ten sports disputed: racing, long jump, dart throw, pentathlon, discus throw, pancrácio, boxing, fighting, 

chariot racing and horse racings.

The Olympic Games began in 776 b.C. and even with the Roman invasion in 456 a.C. they were held until the year 394 of this era, when they were banned by the Roman emperor Theodosius who, converted to Christianity, decided to fight worship of the gods. But it was with the Roman invasion that the original spirit of the games became mischaracterized and the competitions, once amiable, became truly competitive. In all, in antiquity, 293 Olympic competitions were held.

The medals and laurel wreath.

The start of games with the Olympic torch.

 Hurdles race

Basketball