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i want essay on Athletics of 5 lines

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The words “athlete”, “athletics”, are Greek. An athlete was, literally, one who “contended for a prize”. The ancient Greeks thought much of athletic contest, and glorified suc­cessful athletes. They crowded from all Greece to the Olym­pic Games, held once every four years. There the chief, and at first the only, event was the “stadium”, or foot-race of two-hundred yards. The winner of the prize for this race, the olive-wreath, was regarded as the greatest man in Greez