Greek Sports :: Ancient Greece Greek History

Greek SportsAncient fisticuffs had fewer rules than the modern sport. Boxers fought without rounds until one man was knocked out, or admitted he had been beaten. Unlike the modern sport, there was no rule against hitting an antonym when he was down. There were no weight classes within the mens and boys divisions opponents for a hold were chosen randomly. There were some(prenominal) 2-horse chariot and 4-horse chariot races, with separate races for chariots wasted by foals. Another race was between carts drawn by a team of 2 mules. The course was 12 laps around the stadium address (9 miles). The course was 6 laps around the track (4.5 miles), and there were separate races for crowing horses and foals. Jockeys rode without stirrups. The superannuated Greeks considered the rhythm and precision of an athlete throwing the discus as beta as his strength.Only wealthy people could afford to pay for the training, equipment, and feed of both the driver (or jockey) and the horses. As a result, the owner received the olive coronal of victory instead of the driver or jockey. This event was a strenuous combination of boxing and wrestling. Punches were allowed, although the fighters did not wrap their hands with the boxing himantes. Rules illegalise only biting and gouging an opponents eyes, nose, or mouth with fingernails. Attacks such as rush an opponent in the belly, which are against the rules in modern sports, were perfectly legal.The ancient Greeks considered the rhythm and precision of an athlete throwing the discus as important as his strength. The discus was made of stone, iron, bronze, or lead, and was shaped like a travel saucer. Sizes varied, since the boys division was not expected to throw the same weight as the mens. The javelin was a man-high aloofness of wood, with either a sharpened end or an attached metal point. It had a thong for a hurlers fingers attached to its shopping mall of gravity, which increased the precision and distance of a jave lins flight. Athletes used lead or stone jump weights (halteres) shaped like telephone receivers to increase the length of their jump. The halteres were held in front of the athlete during his ascent, and forcibly thrust behind his suffer and dropped during his descent to help propel his body further. There were 4 types of races at Olympia. The stadion was the oldest event of the Games.