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It all comes to an end on Sunday 8 August with the closing ceremony, which starts at The ceremony will feature the usual parade of athletes, albeit in a stripped down, Covid-friendly form, and the both literal and symbolic passing of the torch to Paris ahead of the Games. There are gold medals up for grabs at Tokyo , with the most in any single day on offer on Saturday 7 August, the penultimate day of the Games, when 34 gongs can be won. The latest overall medal rankings from Tokyo are below:.

From Friday until the closing ceremony there are still 70 Olympic gold medals up for grabs:. Elsewhere on the track, the ever-popular 4xm relays take place at 2. Fact fans — Jessica Springsteen — daughter of a certain singer — lines up for the US. Olympos was the home of the greatest of the Greek gods and goddesses.

The ancient Olympic Games began in the year BC , when Koroibos, a cook from the nearby city of Elis, won the stadion race, a foot race feet long. The stadion track at Olympia is shown here. According to some literary traditions, this was the only athletic event of the games for the first 13 Olympic festivals or until BC.

From BC, the Games were held in Olympia every four years for almost 12 centuries. Contrary evidence, both literary and archaeological, suggests that the games may have existed at Olympia much earlier than this date, perhaps as early as the 10th or 9th century BC.

What's that, you ask? A series of bronze tripods have been found at Olympia, some of which may date to the 9th century BC, and it has been suggested that these tripods may in fact be prizes for some of the early events at Olympia.

Source: Deutsches Archaologisches Institut, Athen. Did you know Additional athletic events were gradually added until, by the 5th century BC, the religious festival consisted of a five-day program.



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