There are many activities people can do or watch for entertainment. Many people watch tv or play games. Athletic competition is something people can watch or participate in. Many people like Basketball, Soccer, Baseball, Track and Field, Golf and plenty of other sports or events. The Olympics is a series of sporting event that were played a long time ago and still played today for. To start, there is much history in the first Olympics that began a long time ago. Firstly the idea of the Olympics came to be because of many influences. In the beginning the Olympics was just an athletic event used to pay tribute to people of great importance. Achilles was one of the many who competed in competitions to honor his lost friend Patroclus who died in a battle. The games later grew into international games letting anybody who wanted to, compete the games. In addition the ancient Olympics were held for a purpose. Initially the games were held to ennoble the greek god Zeus. The Olympics then depicted peace and unity after they let anybody compete. People took advantage of this and tried to make peace between two or more nations. Furthermore, the first held Olympics was in 776 B.C. There was only one event, which was a running race won by Coroebus. The Olympics were then played every four years, or every Olympiad. The evolution of the ancient games was also important. Spartans were the ones who won most of the events until the king of Argos, Pheidon took over the Olympics. The Spartans then dropped out of the Games. The ancient Olympics were later restructured in 472 B.C. The Olympics lasted five days with the first day beginning with religious ceremonies and the last to praise victors and celebrating. Olive leaf wreaths were bestowed to winners. Lastly, the end of the ancient Olympics was a notable event. In 393 B.C Theodosius a Roman Emperor revoked the Games. Other games were made to honor other gods. There were games to honor Apollo, Poseidon and again Zeus. None of them were as popular as the initial Olympics Games (“Olympic Games”). Secondly, after the ancient Olympics ended, they were modernized. To begin the development of the Modern Olympics is credited to a French academic. International Olympic Committee was formed by Pierre Coubertin in 1894. He formed his ideas about new modern Olympics when German archaeologist made discoveries in ancient Olympian temples and stadiums in 1875. After that, the first modern Olympics took place (“W