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Much Wenlock was home to the creator of the modern Olympics movement, William Penny Brookes, who organised the first Wenlock OlympianGames in 1850.
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It really had become a forgotten story, said Tim King, Tourism Officer for Shropshire Council, as the 126th Wenlock OlympianGames got underway this week.
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Only a few were allowed to train for participation in the Olympiangames.
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The inscriptions following will serve to illustrate the success attained in these Olympiangames:
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Base ball combines running, jumping, throwing and everything that constitutes the athletic events of the Olympiangames.
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With Nero he promenaded through Greece-satat the Olympiangames and fell asleep when his emperor sang.
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Those strongholds of the old paganism, the Delphic oracle, the Olympiangames, and the Eleusinian mysteries, were abolished.
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It was a splendid ambition for Alsace-theeternal field of battle-towish to inaugurate these European Olympiangames.
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Racing, as at the Olympiangames?
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Finally, Peregrinus ended his career by throwing himself into the flames of a funeral pile during the Olympiangames.
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The dfferent nations had already met in peaceful emulation and were to meet again at Berlin for the Olympiangames.
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There are innumerable persons with eye-glasses and green garments who pray for the return of the maypole or the Olympiangames.
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When Philip took Olynthus he celebrated Olympiangames, and gathered together all the artists to the sacrifice and the festal gathering.
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The statue represents a young man, perhaps an athlete at the Olympiangames, who is bending forward to hurl the discus.
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There were the Olympiangames, by which they reckoned the years, and the Isthmean, which were held at the Isthmus of Corinth.
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An analysis of the 1912 Olympiangames shows that the American showed to best advantage in contests where the stress of competition was hardest.