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What are relays?

Relays are split into four sections called legs, with one runner covering each, then passing a baton to the next runner. The last leg is called the anchor. The baton pass must be completed within a 20-m long exchange zone, or the team is disqualified.
Girl relay teams have the 4×100, 4×200, and the 4×400. The boys have the 4×100, and 4×400. The 100 is meaning 100m, the 200 meaning 200m, and the 400 meaning 400m.

When people think of track and field it is usually meaning individual events, but with the relays teamwork is everything. It is as if you must be one when you are in a relay, and have a good connection with your teammates. One person in the team can change the whole atmosphere of the race. When one teammate is down or not excited that brings the whole team down, you must always be on the same page with your team and always be optimistic about your races.

Where did it all start? And what has it turned into?

 

 

The ancient Olympic Games were primarily a part of a religious festival in honor of Zeus, the father of the Greek gods and goddesses. The festival and the games were held in Olympia, a rural sanctuary site in the western Peloponnesos.
The ancient Olympic Games began in the year 776 BC, when Koroibos, a cook from the nearby city of Elis, won the stadion race, a foot race 600 feet long.

According to some literary traditions, this was the only athletic event of the games for the first 13 Olympic festivals or until 724 BC. From 776 BC, the Games were held in Olympia every four years for almost 12 centuries.
Although the ancient Games were staged in Olympia, Greece, from 776 BC through 393 AD, it took 1503 years for the Olympics to return. The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. The man responsible for its rebirth was a Frenchman named Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who presented the idea in 1894. His original thought was to unveil the modern Games in 1900 in his native Paris, but delegates from 34 countries were so enthralled with the concept that they convinced him to move the Games up to 1896 and have Athens serve as the first host.
The Olympic flame has no history background, it started in 1928 at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam. The Olympic Oath started in 1920.