Race, Nationality, and the 2008 Olympics by David Yeagley on 21 August 2008 http://www.badeagle.com/ The Olympics are ancient, of course. The games were first organized in the latter 8th century, BC, in
Olympia, Greece. They say Heracles (Hercules) started them, to honor his father Zeus, and there was some concept of a "truce" involved in the games....