As almost everyone knows, the Olympics were started by the ancient Greeks almost 3000 years ago. Of course, they haven’t continued uninterrupted since that time. They were restarted in the late 1800s, and today’s Olympics are the direct descendant of those games. One sport that weathered the thousands of years between Olympiads is weightlifting. Very possibly, the only contest that...
As almost everyone knows, the Olympics were started by the ancient Greeks almost 3000 years ago. Of course, they haven’t continued uninterrupted since that time. They were restarted in the late 1800s, and today’s Olympics are the direct descendant of those games. One sport that weathered the thousands of years between Olympiads is weightlifting. Very possibly, the only contest that...