Olympic Games

The article is about the first Olympics and the famous chariot race between the King CEnamaus and Prince Pelops.  The king had a beautiful daughter named Hippodamia.  He said that the first man to find her could  marry her. Thirteen young men tried and failed. Everyone who failed was put to death by CEnamaus.  Prince Pelops found her and married her. Soon after the king died. 

 The Olympic festivals were just for men.  Women were not even allowed to be spectators.  Every competitor had to take an Olympic oath in which he swore that he had trained ten months before the Olympics games. Women ofte broke the rules and they went to watch the games, disguised as men.

There is a story about a runner named Pisidorus  who was being trained by his father.    However during the training the father died  and his mother start training him.  Pisidorus won the race and his mother started to cry. Everyone found out that she was a woman. After that the Olympic rules changed and women were allowed to watch and join the games.