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Track and field events are the oldest of all organized sports.
The first organized meets recorded in history were the Olympic Games. The greeks held the first Olympic Games in 776 B.C. For many years the only Olympian competition was the pentathlon.
Athletes competed in discus and javelin throwing, food racing, broad jumping, and wrestling. Other contests including foot races for men wearing full armor, ere later added to the list of track and field events.
___ For many years the only Olympian Competition was the pentathlon.
___Track and Field events are the oldest of all organized sports.
___The Greeks held the first Olympic Games in 776 B.C.
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Backammons is the world's oldest game. It was invented in Mesopotamia more than 1000 years ago. Archeologist have found game boards in the ruins of acient homes in Greece, Rome, Persia and the Far East. The Romans called the game tabula,, which in English means tables. When the Romans invaded Britain, tabula went with them. adults and children played tables during the Middle Ages. In the 1600s the name of thr game was changed to backgammon, which means, "back game" in Middle English.
___It was invented in Mesopotamia over a thousand years ago
___The Romans called the game tabula, which in english means tables.
___Bacgammon is the world's oldest game.
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Muhammad Ali brought to the sport of boxing a combination of size, speed, strength and stamina. As if that were not enough to make him a succses, Ali also had a lively personality that few others in sports or entertaiment came close to matching. Ali is considered to be the greatest heavyweight boxer all time . He rose to fame during the Civil Right Movement. Muhammad Ali now many boxing tittles matches. It made him the world's most famous athlete in the 1970's and a honored and admired figure throughout the U.S.
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Buffalo Bill was a famoous American from the Old West. His real name was William Frederick Cody. Buffalo Bill was an American guide, c=scout, and showman. He also was a rider for the Pony Express when it was established in 1860, and at the beginning of the American Civil War, Buffalo Bill was a scout and guide for the Union Army. In 1863, he enlisted in the sevent Kansas Cavalary as an army scout. At the close of the war he contracted with the Kansas Pasific Railroad to feed buffalo meat to the workers on the line. That's how he earned his nickname.
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