Fri Aug 15, 2008 @ 6:43pm

Legend has it that a very long time ago, Herakles (aka Hercules) had won a race at Olympia and declared the race should be re-enacted every 4 years. The first recorded Olympic games took place in 776 BC, however it is widely believed to have started long before that, with some historians citing the 13th century BC as the beginning.