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The sport where you're the equipment.
means Competitive sports built on running, jumping, and throwing — the raw stuff of human movement, tested against a clock, a tape measure, or a bar.
from From Greek 'athlon,' meaning prize or contest — the thing you competed FOR before it became the word for the competing itself. An 'athletes' was simply a prize-seeker, a contender. The word passed through Latin 'athleta' and into English around the 1600s, originally just meaning a wrestler or combatant, before broadening to cover the whole family of track-and-field pursuits.
- ancient roots
- Olympic games began 776 BC in Olympia, Greece
- us vs uk
- Americans call it track and field instead
- naked origins
- Greek athletes competed completely nude, on purpose
- oldest event
- The stadion sprint predates almost every other sport