A FORMER Teesside MP promoting peace with a mammoth walk from Greece to London has said the hard work is worth it. Lord Michael Bates, former MP for Langbaurgh, is 754 miles and three months into his trek, from Olympia, the site of the ancient Olympic Games in Greece, to Westminster in time for the London 2012 Olympics.
A NORTH-EAST lord on a 3,500-mile truce walk has found himself as popular as Norman Wisdom in Albania. Lord Michael Bates is 700 miles and two months into his walk from the site of the ancient Olympic Games, in Greece, to London, for the start of the 2012 games to raise awareness of the Olympic truce.
A - ATHENS The Olympic Games of ancient Greece were revived in 1896 and held in their spiritual home. These first modern Games attracted about 241 athletes - all male - from 14 countries. By the time the Olympics returned to the Greek capital in 2004, the number of competitors had risen to 10,625 across 28 sports. B - BOYCOTTS AND 'BLACK POWER' SALUTE The 1976 Games in Montreal were overshadowed by an African boycott in protest at the presence of New Zealand following a controversial All Black rugby tour of apartheid South Africa. The United States led a large boycott of the politicallysensitive 1980 Moscow Games and the Soviet Union responded by not competing at Los Angeles in 1984.
Like a slow fuse burning, the excitement around the 2012 Olympic Games is building in the Westcountry. Now that the sun's rays have ignited the Olympic flame in the ancient ceremony in Greece at Olympia, birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games, anticipation has increased still further. In just a few days' time, we will all have an opportunity to be part of a "once-in-alifetime" experience when the flame is borne proudly through villages and towns in South West England. It is a time when the eyes of the world will be on us because the Olympic flame will start its epic journey across the UK from Land's End on May 19 - arriving in London for the ceremonial start of the Games of the XXX Olympiad on July 27.
Like a slow fuse burning, the excitement around the 2012 Olympic Games is building in the West Country. Now that the sun's rays have ignited the Olympic flame in the ancient ceremony in Greece at Olympia, birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games, anticipation has increased still further. In just a few days' time, we will all have an opportunity to be part of a "once-in-alifetime" experience when the flame is borne proudly through villages and towns in South West England. It is a time when the eyes of the world will be on us because the Olympic flame will start its epic journey across the UK from Land's End on May 19 - arriving in London for the ceremonial start of the Games of the XXX Olympiad on July 27.
They used to do it naked. That's how historians believe athletes competed in the Ancient Olympic Games that started at Olympia, in Greece, almost 800 years before Christ was born. Back then the Games used to be just the one event: running. Those Ancient Greeks sure had imagination. Not so much a game as work experience for your average criminal. They ran one length of the stadium, and that was it. It took them half a century before they decided to introduce the 'there-and-back' race. Running in more than one direction, what a groundbreaking idea.
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 11 THE Greek football team open the Olympics two days before the official ceremony with their Group A game against Korea at Thessalonika.
ENGLAND cricket star Freddie Flintoff saved the life of a fellow cyclist on his marathon charity ride. Freddie had just started riding the 1,785 miles from the site of the original Olympic Games in Greece to London's Olympic Stadium when David Yarnton suddenly toppled from his bike, overcome by the sweltering conditions.
The Olympic flame, torch and relay were all important elements of the culture associated with the ancient Olympic Games in Greece. In the early days of the games in Ancient Greece, a sacred flame would be burned, with heralds summoned to travel throughout Greece to announce the games.
ENGLAND cricket star Freddie Flintoff saved the life of a fellow cyclist on his marathon charity ride. Freddie had just started riding the 1,785 miles from the site of the original Olympic Games in Greece to London's Olympic Stadium when David Yarnton suddenly toppled from his bike, overcome by the sweltering conditions.
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