Olympic Games

The Olympic Games were named after the town of Olympia in Greece. It was in Olympia that the games were first held long before the Christian era began. In those days Greece was divided into many city states, and men of different city states used to fight one another most of the time. A man named Iphitos became concerned about such wasteful strafes. He hit upon a plan. He invited the best athletes from the nearby cities to the valley of Olympia to take part in athletic contests. Iphitos’s plan worked well. For a time the Greek warriors, instead of