The hippodrome of Delphi was the location where the running events took place during the Pythian Games.

After finishing 4th in the 1970 Commonwealth Games and running the fastest season time in 1971, he was not a big favourite for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, having limited competition experience.

) By the late 1940s, head coach Earle " Greasy " Neale and running back Steve Van Buren led the team to three consecutive NFL Championship Games, winning two of them in 1948 and 1949.

Those present at the stadium were shocked by what they had witnessed, and Olympic officials decided to ban cross country running from future Games.

The Tailteann Games, an Irish sporting festival in honour of the goddess Tailtiu, dates back to 1829 BCE, and is one of the earliest records of competitive running.

* Martin Gardner, author of Mathematical Games, a long running column in Scientific American

The Tailteann Games were an ancient Celtic festival in Ireland, founded around 1800 BC, and the thirty-day meeting included running and stone-throwing among its sporting events.

Having won sprint events at the 1903 American and Canadian championships, Hahn — born in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, but running for the University of Michigan — was among the favourites at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, which was poorly attended by European athletes.

Her chief opponent was Maureen Gardner, also coached by Blankers-Koen's husband and who had equalled Blankers's world record prior to the Games, and would be running for her home crowd.

Atlanta's main rivals were Toronto, whose front running bid that began in 1986 seemed almost sure to succeed after Canada had held a successful 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and Melbourne, Australia, who hosted the 1956 Summer Olympics and felt that the Olympic Games should return to Australia.

It was this poem which inspired Baron Pierre de Coubertin and other founders of the modern Olympic Games to invent a running race of 42 km called the Marathon.

The Baron de Coubertin, who was also secretary-general of the USFSA, was urged to withdraw from active involvement in the running of the Games and did so, only to comment later, " I surrendered-and was incorrect in doing so.

Games using the Power Pad often test players on their timing and coordination, memory, " running " speed, or allow them to play music with their steps.

The scope of the Games expanded in later years to include further running competitions, but the introduction of the Ancient Olympic pentathlon marked a step towards track and field as it is recognised today — it comprised a five-event competition of the long jump, javelin throw, discus throw, the stadion foot race, and wrestling.

) Weird Pete also devised a " demerit " system for penalizing players when he is GMing — which can be worked off with time running the front counter of the " Games Pit ".

He works as sort of a gofer at the Games Pit, running errands on his scooter or sorting inventory.

Stadion or stade () was an ancient running event, part of the Olympic Games and the other Panhellenic Games.

There were other types of running events, but the stadion was the most prestigious ; the winner was often considered to be the winner of an entire Games.

Fox hosted Way Out Games ( 1976 – 1977 ), a Saturday-morning series for CBS, then later spent a year ( 1977 – 1978 ) running children's programming for NBC and eventually became a chairman of the board for Population Communications International, a nonprofit dedicated to " technical assistance, research and training consultation to governments, NGOs and foundations on a wide range of social marketing and communications initiatives ", for which he is still an honorary chairman.

Although the reports of deaths were unfounded, spectators were shocked by the attrition rate and Olympic officials decided to ban cross country running from future Games.

Wii Sports opened the way for other physically reactive sports-based video games, such as Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, the first official title to feature both Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog, in which players used the Wii Remote to simulate running, jumping and other Olympic sports.

In the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, Ovett and Coe won each other's speciality ; Ovett the 800 metres, and Coe the 1500 metres ( Coe came in second in the 800 after running what he described as " the worst tactical race of my life ", while Ovett took third in the 1500 ).

* In June 2010 during the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2010, Mark Rein ( vice president of Epic Games ) showcased a tech demo of Gears of War 2 in stereoscopic 3D running on an Xbox 360 thanks to the TriOviz for Games Technology.

To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson ( Time cover, Aug. 29 ), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960.

During the Second Punic War in 212 BCE, the Ludi Apollinares (" Apollonian Games ") were instituted in his honor, on the instructions of a prophecy attributed to one Marcius.

Sacrifices and prayers on the Palatine to Apollo and Diana formed the culmination of the Secular Games, held in 17 BCE to celebrate the dawn of a new era.

The singles " I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You ", " Games People Play ", " Damned If I Do ", " Time " ( Woolfson's first lead vocal ), " Eye in the Sky " and " Don't Answer Me " had a notable impact on the Billboard Hot 100.

He used his time in Bourg to research mathematics, producing Considérations sur la théorie mathématique de jeu ( 1802 ; “ Considerations on the Mathematical Theory of Games ”), a treatise on mathematical probability that he sent to the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1803.

Atari Corp .' s later XE Games System revisited the idea of a console based on the 400 / 800 hardware.

Games can be based on pure strategy, chance ( e. g. rolling dice ) or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve.

* When Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark arrive at the Capitol in the 2012 film The Hunger Games, a pair of pink borzoi are shown on screen — an illustration of the Capitol residents ' gaudy lifestyle.

Published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1976, the game centered on intelligent rabbits.

Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.

( model 6065, 1977 ): Four variations on Kee Games ' Tank, four fixed joysticks ( two per player ), uses a General Instruments AY-3-8700 Tank chip.

These Pythian Games rank second among the four stephanitic games chronologically and based on importance.

# Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Fun and Games ( Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information — CSLI Lecture Notes, no.

The game's music was represented in the classic games medley on the Video Games Live concert tour.

It was rated the 150th best game made on a Nintendo System in Nintendo Power's Top 200 Games list.

IGN also placed the game at number 77 on its " Top 100 NES Games of All Time " feature.

The son of an Iranian diplomat, he travelled widely as a child, living in 17 countries by age 11 ; then, as a young man, he represented Iran as a basketball player in the 1948 Olympic Games and served on the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine from 1952 to 1954.

At Gen Con 2012, FASA Games, Inc. was revealed, which includes FASA Corporation co-founder Ross Babcock on the Board of Directors.

Games here are played on trees ( as pictured to the left ).

Daniele Hypólito on the Balance Beam at the 2007 Pan American Games

His book about games of chance, Liber de ludo aleae (" Book on Games of Chance "), written in 1526, but not published until 1663, contains the first systematic treatment of probability, as well as a section on effective cheating methods.

* After the airing of the season 5 episode " Games, Flames, and Automobiles ", in which Al created a game based on Tool Time, Northern Games released The Home Improvement Board Game.