Pentathlon

The City of Corinth In Acts 18:1 Luke provides an itinerary for Paul by writing "after these things (the events of Chapter 17) he left Athens, and went to Corinth." (All Scripture references are New American Standard Bible unless other wise noted). The cities of Athens and Corinth were only 50 miles apart but quite different. Athens was a city of culture and learning, Corinth was known for its commerce and profligacy. Corinth was located just south of the narrow isthmus which joined the…

The 1980 Summer Olympic protest was wrong of all countries participating because politics should never interfere with athletics. The protesting of the olympics demonstrated that it hurts the athletes the most and harms the game itself. The first instance of politics affecting the Olympics was in 1936 when Germany hosted and tried to promote the idea of superiority with its Aryan race. Adolf Hitler used the Olympic’s as a platform to show how great Germany was after being rebuilt after the…

Rouffin 1988: 594). It was important for Athenian boys to learn multiple forms of sport and the “exercises were graduated from the easier to the more difficult” (Laurie, 1894:491). Eventually the boys were able to compete in contests like the “Pentathlon, in which five exercises [were] performed in succession by the same person [including] leaping, running, discus, throwing the spear, and wrestling” (Laurie, 1894: 492). Once the boys were eighteen years old they “no longer attended the Palaestra…

involving cheating, drugs, and violence are brought to the public’s attention, and over the years scandals of these nature have been anything but scarce. Jim Thorpe is a classic example of accidental cheating. In 1912 Thorpe won gold in both the pentathlon and decathlon, he quickly became known as the world’s greatest athlete. He was the first Native American to win gold, but thanks to a strict amateur athlete only rule, his success was short-winded. It came to light that three years prior to…

Nicholas Palatucci Professor Spar World Civ. 12 December 2014 Ancient Greek Olympic Games Throughout the history of human civilization, various peoples around the world have developed their own games and contests where they compete with one another. No such contests were as interesting or well documented as the Olympic Games that occurred in ancient Greece. While visiting the MET, I discovered the Terracotta Panathenaic Prize Amphora. This is a vase that is from the Greek period at about 500…

place kicker, punter and defender. Which he became an all-american in college football ( Bio, 2014). Although Jim was great at football, that was not his only passion. In 1912 he was named to the United States Olympic team and won a gold in the pentathlon. However he was stripped of his medal because it was later revealed he was not an amateur because he played baseball in the summer in which he got paid to do. Thorpe did not know of these rules and felt cheated. Many people felt the amateur…