Although Olympic winners received no prize money,

　　they were, in fact, richly rewarded by their state authorities.

　　How their results compared with modern standards,

　　we unfortunately have no means of telling.

　　After an uninterrupted history of almost 1,200 years,

　　the Games were suspended by the Romans in 394 A.D.

　　They continued for such a long time

　　because people believed in the philosophy behind the Olympics:

　　the idea that a healthy body produced a healthy mind,

　　and that the spirit of competition in sports and games was preferable to the competition that caused wars.

　　It was over 1,500 years before another such international athletic gathering took place in Athens in 1896.

　　Nowadays,the Games are held in different countries in turn.

　　The host country provides vast facilities,

　　including a stadium, swimming pools and living accommodation,

　　but competing countries pay their own athletes expenses.

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