It is just a Thomas Running meme. According to the Olympics, running became a sport in ancient Greece around 776 BC, with the first game being held at the ancient Olympic Games in Olympia ...

Ancient Olympic sports included running, long jump, shot put, javelin, boxing, pankration (a combat sport, sort of the ...

Image caption, The ancient Olympic athletes would enter the stadium ... like the javelin, discus and running. Before the games began, messengers were sent out to announce a 'sacred truce' or ...

It was a Roman emperor, Theodosius II, who had brought the ancient Olympics to an ... organisers scheduled the marathon to be run at night. Uniquely for an Olympic marathon, the race neither ...

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece. Running. Jumping. Throwing. Wrestling. Boxing. Horse racing. We’ve got it all going on! Welcome to Olympia ...

Greek runners Charalampos Pitsolis and Stamatia Noula won the 39th “Athens Marathon, the Authentic” (AMA), which took place ...