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Track and field-style events are among the oldest of all sporting competitions, as running, jumping and throwing are natural and universal forms of human physical expression.
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Pierre de Coubertin was the actual founder of the modern day Olympics later on the year and also made the olympic symbol.
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The establishment of the modern Olympic Games at the end of the 19th century marked a new high for track and field.
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there was a guy named William Penny Brooks who wanted to help with the NAO National Association Olympics other know as The Olympics and they held their very first meet in The Crystal Palace of London
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Track began in the 776 BC when they had a barefoot race that was 600 feet long. but people think that the olympics happened even more years earlier that what they said it was.
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The Rings appeared for the first time in 1913 at the top of a letter written by Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games. He drew and coloured the rings by hand.
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I have never finished a run sad. I am always much happier. Running is such a great stress reliever, I always say that the run is always hard but my life is so much easier because of it, and that is very true.
