Does anyone know any injuries that might have occured in the Ancient Greece Olympics?
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Broken bones, sprained ankels, the same injuries we can get today well playing sports.
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Yes! I broke my ankle at my local swim club, and I could not go to the Dominican Republic. It totally sucked! For the rest of the summer I could not do ANYTHING. Even now I can't dance (I've done ballet since I was 3) or play sports as well as I used to. Never brake you ankle! :)
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Not sure but is it possible that there could be medical complications arising at some point later in time due to excessive marching or anything?  Sounds really ignorant on my part but can your bones break easily or anything?  Medical is the only thing I can think of....Military anywhere is not big on spending money for something that was done/happened prior to enlistment if something were to happen medically.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics
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Yes, I believe it has, however Australia, would not be the only country competing who have has major atheletes pull out of the games due to sickness / injury.
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it is inevitable, ive had three surguries on 1 knee and 1 on the other, injuries happen every day and always will wether playing sports or not. but it does help to have a better surface a little.
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I remember seeing this one site about it I can't remember but it had to do with some weird exercise.  If i do remember ill try and tell you\n\nPeace
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Try:\nhttp://www.shouldersolutions.com/impinge.php\n\nhttp://www.physsportsmed.com/issues/2003/0703/depalma.htm
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two dates are proposed - 12 Sep 490BC and 12 Aug 490BC... \nHerodotus mentions for several events a date in the lunisolar calendar, of which each Greek city state used a variant. Astronomical computation allows to derive an absolute date in the proleptic Julian calendar which is much used by historians as the chronological frame. August Böckh in 1855 concluded that the battle took place on 12 September 490 BC in the Julian calendar, and this is the conventionally accepted date. However, this depends on when the Spartans held their festival and it is possible that the Spartan calendar was one month ahead of that of Athens. In that case the battle took place on 12 August 490 BC. If the battle really occurred in August, temperatures in the area can reach 100 degrees Fahrenheit and thus make the marathon run event more plausible. See D.W.Olson et al., Sky & Telescope Sep. 2004 pp.34..41 .\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon#Date_of_the_battle
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In Greece...I think...when the first Olympics occured
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a lot of joint injuries, ankles and knees especially (due to the impact and weight they bear all the time) can become aggravated WELL after the injury.  Time and what you're doing will set it right.
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Ancient Greece.  At least, those are the earliest ones we have records of.
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I think that was before Alexander.  So if it even existed, Greece was probably a Monarchy... I think...
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All I know is that the Greeks started their dates from the first Olympic Games which was around 770 BC.  So using that calendar the year 1 (as we know it) would've been 770, and we are currently in 2776 (or somewhere thereabouts).  Of course there were many different calendars at use at the time from various parts of the world, and I think a few years have either been added or taken away from our calendar over the centuries.\n\nI'm sure that if you did some research into Roman, Greek and Egyptian ( I mean, they were around for at least two thousand years before Jesus) history you could find out more.
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The Summer Olympics (Games of the Olympiad) have been held every fourth year starting in 1896, with the exception of the years during the World Wars.\n\nA special edition for winter sports, the Olympic Winter Games, was first held in 1924. The first winter Olympics competitions were originally held as a non-Olympic sports festival, but were declared to be official Games by the International Olympic Committee in 1925. Originally these were held in the same year as the Summer Olympics, but from 1994 the Winter Games and the Summer Games are held two years apart.\n\nThere are many legends surrounding the origin of the ancient Olympic Games. One of these associates the first Games with the ancient Greek concept of εκεχειρία (ekecheiria) or Olympic Truce. The date of the Games' inception based on the count of years in Olympiads is reconstructed as 776 BC, although scholars' opinions diverge between dates as early as 884 BC and as late as 704 BC.\n\nIn the 17th century, the Olympic Games sports festival was held in England, followed by the National Olympic Games, which were established in the 19th century and continue to this day. Later, similar events were organised in France and Greece, but these were all small-scale and certainly not international.\n\nThe interest in reviving the Olympics grew when the ruins of ancient Olympia were uncovered by German archaeologists in the mid-19th century. At the same time, Baron Pierre de Coubertin was searching for a reason for the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871). He thought the reason was that the French had not received proper physical education, and sought to improve this. In 1890 he attended the Wenlock Olympian Society. Coubertin also thought of a way to bring nations closer together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war. In his eyes, the recovery of the Olympic Games would achieve both of these goals.\n\nIn a congress at the Sorbonne University, in Paris, held from June 16 to June 23, 1894 he presented his ideas to an international audience. On the last day of the congress, it was decided that the first modern Olympic Games would take place in 1896 in Athens, in the country of their birth. To organise the Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was established, with the Greek Demetrius Vikelas as its first president.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Games#Ancient_Olympics
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Well, I'll start with a personal anecdote.  First game I played in college I had my head stepped on by my own damned scrumhalf, cleats and all, and was knocked out on the field.  I have also personally seen people have their faces cut open by elbows in a ruck, usually right above the eye.  Head wounds bleed quite a bit.  Another injury I have witnessed was from one of the girl ruggers here, who had her ear nearly torn off and then stitched back on. I'm not even bothering to mention the number of broken limbs, sprains, and their ilk. Also, for some statistics on Rugby injuries in Australia, check the link in the source.  \n\nNeedless to say, Rugby is a much more violent sport than Football, and it makes it just that much more fun to play.\n\nEdit:  Forgot to mention spearing, in which during a tackle a player is lifted by his legs and smashed head first into the ground.  It is illegal, but it happens.\n\nEdit:  Well, back in the late 19th century, England alone counted 71 rugby related deaths in three seasons.  I haven't been able to find a recent count, although I know that deaths do occur.  I didn't bother mentioning broken/twisted limbs because they are so common. You know, legs broken the wrong way with the bone sticking out, that sort of thing. I also know from playing that football players can't take a hit to save their lives.  They are too comfortable with all that padding.  You take it away and they break something or have something broken within two or three games.\n\nEdit:  I'm going to keep finding stuff to convince you how awesome the game is!  Buck Shelford had his sack cut open during a game by a boot spike, which left his testicle hanging out.  Doctors stitched him back up and he played the rest of the game.  Link is in the sources.
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Ancient Greece and Crete, see here:\n\nhttp://www.petrspacek.com/history/history1.htm