Ancient Olympic Games sprint distance Philological.doc

Ancient Olympic Games sprint distance Philological Recorded in 776 BC, ancient Greek Olympic Games, sprint is the only tournament will be the initial project, the ancient Greeks called ‘Stead’ (stande). Until the 14th, after only a gradual increase to and from the running and some other sports items, reached a maximum of 24 items, which, in order to run, discus, javelin, wrestling and horse racing horses five most famous sports. Why did the ancient Greeks, a total of 52 years during the 13 th Olympic Games, only chosen sprint This is reflected mainly at the rate of competitive projects, due to a long history to find the relevant text can not be documented and difficult to interpret. But the ancient Greeks, the respect of sprint feelings are evidenced by stone cliff. Access to relevant historical materials, the length of the ancient Olympic race there is no specific record of the distance [1], based on no written account of the reasons, almost identical to introduce the history of the ancient Olympic race books, the description of sprint distances have different length. Although a difference of only a few dozen centimeters, but did not form a unified understanding. More importantly, the ancient Greeks at that time already have their own units of length, and our historians of the ancient Olympic Games was to use modern metric units of length, or Imperial units of length to measure the distance of the ancient Olympic sprinter. Ancient Olympic Games, a short distance to run the length of four kinds of argument Chapter 1 species, (stande) is about 192 meters [2]; the first two kinds, is 192.25 meters (stadium lap distance of about 192.25 meters [3]); No. 3, from the 1st (in 776 BC ) ~ 13th (BC 728) Only a sprint, distance is 192.27 meters [1]; No. 4, China Taiwan editor of the Board of Education’s ‘Dictionary of’’the ancient Olympic Games Sports Short race (stadium)’ Speech Article: rectangular stadium in Ancient Greece, long 200 yards (606.75 feet, or about 192.27