* Games: 196 Morten Andersen ( 1982 – 1994 )

In 196, peace was finally agreed and at the Isthmian Games that year Flamininus proclaimed the liberty of the Greeks to general rejoicing.

In 196 BC Flamininus appeared at the Isthmian Games in Corinth and proclaimed the freedom of the Greek states.

At the Isthmian Games in 196 BC, Flamininus declared all the Greek cities free, although Roman garrisons were placed at Corinth and Chalcis.

Among Romans the career of Titus Quinctius Flamininus ( died 174 BC ), who appeared at the Isthmian Games in Corinth in 196 BC and proclaimed the freedom of the Greek states, was fluent in Greek, stood out, according to Livy, as a great admirer of Greek culture ; the Greeks hailed him as their liberator.

Apollo's sacred precinct in Delphi was a panhellenic sanctuary, where every four years, starting in 776 BC athletes from all over the Greek world competed in the Pythian Games, one of the four panhellenic ( or stephanitic ) games, precursors of the Modern Olympics.

* The lyric poet Bacchylides quoted / paraphrased Hesiod in a victory ode addressed to Hieron of Syracuse, commemorating the tyrant's win in the chariot race at the Pythian Games 470 BC, the attribution made with these words: " A man of Boeotia, Hesiod, minister of the Muses, spoke thus: ' He whom the immortals honour is attended also by the good report of men.

Pankration ( or ) was a martial art introduced into the Greek Olympic Games in 648 BC and founded as a blend of boxing and wrestling but with almost no rules save disallowing biting and gouging of the opponent's eyes.

Dioxippus was an Athenian who had won the Olympic Games in 336 BC, and was serving in Alexander the Great's army in its expedition into Asia.

Side B of a Panathenaic Games | Panathenaic prize Panathenaic amphora | amphora, c. 500 BC.

The ancient Olympic Games were held every four years in the Greek city of Olympia, in the Kingdom of Elis, from 776 BC through either 261 or 393 AD.

In Irish mythology the geal-ruith ( triple jump ), was an event contested in the ancient Irish Tailteann Games as early as 1829 BC.

* 648 BC: Pankration becomes an event at the Ancient Olympic Games.

The Consualia, with its semi-mythical establishment by Romulus, and the Cerealia, the major festival of Ceres, were probably older than the earliest historically attested " Roman Games " ( Ludi Romani ) held at the Circus in honour of Jupiter in 366 BC.

The history of the Olympic Games is believed to reach as far back as the 13th century BC.

The ethnogenesis of the Greek nation is marked, according to some scholars, by the first Olympic Games in 776 BC, when the idea of a common Hellenism among the Greek-speaking tribes was first translated into a shared cultural experience and Hellenism was primarily a matter of common culture.

Organised athletics are traced back to the Ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC, and most modern events are conducted by the member clubs of the International Association of Athletics Federations.

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.

Athletics competitions also took place at other Panhellenic Games, which were founded later around 500 BC.

* 582 BC — Pythian Games reorganised at Delphi.

* 581 BC — Isthmian Games founded at Corinth.

* 566 BC The first known Panathenaic Games of Ancient Greece are held in Athens.

* 573 BC — Nemean Games founded at Nemea.

* 648 BC — Pankration becomes an event at the Ancient Olympic Games.

* 776 BC – 394 AD — Era of the ancient Greek Olympic Games.

* 776 BC — First Olympic Games, according to Diodorus Siculus ( of the 1st century BC ).

* Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece between 776 BC and 393 AD

The Tailteann Games, held near modern Telltown in Ireland, was one of the first multi-sport festivals to be recorded, and its history can be traced back to 1829 BC.

The Ancient Olympic Games, first held in 776 BC, was the precursor to the Modern Olympic Games, although its first edition only featured a footrace and the number of sporting competitions expanded at later editions.

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.

The Pythian Games were held in Apollo's honor every four years at Delphi.

In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).

* 1930 – The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.

Great Britain also entered a team at the Olympics Games in 1900 and in 1908, but they were organised separately from the Lions.

Many books of type-in programs were also available, and in particular, Ahl published versions of the original 101 BASIC games converted into the Microsoft dialect and published it from Creative Computing as " BASIC Computer Games ".

In classical Greece, celery leaves were used as garlands for the dead, and the wreaths of the winners at the Isthmian Games were first made of celery before being replaced by crowns made of pine.

Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outside, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain and Ireland, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France.

Given that the ColecoVision could produce near arcade-quality ports, industry magazines like Electronic Games were unanimous in their enthusiasm over the console.

Ken Uston reviewed 32 games in his book Ken Uston's Guide to Buying and Beating the Home Video Games in 1982, and rated some of the Channel F's titles highly ; of these, Alien Invasion and Video Whizball were considered by Uston to be " the finest adult cartridges currently available for the Fairchild Channel F System.

They were used for the Sydney, Athens, Turin, Beijing, Vancouver and Singapore Youth Olympic Games relays.

They were also used for the Special Olympics Shanghai, Pan American and Central African Games relays.

The first X Games ( known as 1995 Extreme Games ) were held in Newport, Providence, Mount Snow, and Vermont in the United States.

Other honors include his ivory statue as head of procession of the Circus Games ; his posts of priest of Augustus and Augur were to be filled by members of the imperial family ; knights of Rome gave his name to a block of seats in a theatre in Rome.

In the 2010 Commonwealth Games, most of India's male wrestlers were from Haryana.

The Improv Olympics were first demonstrated at Toronto's Homemade Theatre in 1976 and have been continued on as the Canadian Improv Games.

The last time that the Games were held in the United Kingdom was 1948.

The magazine was revived by Imperium Games after GDW folded, and JTAS 25 and 26 were published before that publisher folded itself.

* 1952 – The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were opened in Helsinki, Finland.

One of its more famous renditions was by the dignitaries of Manchester's bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games, just after they were awarded to Sydney.

In 1984, they were released for the Atari 5200 under the Lucasfilm Games label.

Later ILM and Skywalker Sound were consolidated in Lucas Digital Ltd. and LucasArts became the official name of the former Games Division.