Sam's

Ever since the great hero Hercules, who won a race in Olympus, said this race must be repeated every four years. This is exactly what started the Olympics. What do you know; four years later the race is repeated and that was the first Olympics ever.
 * Sam's story

For forty years the Olympics went on getting more games adding and making them more complicated. In 645 B.C a game called Discus Throwing was added. Less people came to that event because it was the most dangerous to those in the stands. See, the object of the game was to toss the Discus as far as you can. Some times they throw it too high and hit someone. About 2 people die or get injured every Olympics. The record toss back then was 30 meters or 95 feet. The record now has gone up to an astounding 70 meters. The discus was made out of many different material such as stone, marble, and metal. The discus always had to be round and flat, like a Frisbee. If it was not it would not fly threw the air that far. It was even more horrifying to know that some of the discus's had sharp ends. The game of discus throwing is still played today. There are over 100 teams in the United States alone.

Said to have been a disciple of the bronze smith Hageladas, Myron worked between 480-440 BC. He was from Athens and made statues for the victors of the Olympic games and a group of Athena and Marsyas. He is also said to have made a perfect statue of a cow. Myron liked to make movements, his statues show us persons in action which is typical in the discus thrower: the athlete is just about to throw the discus. Myron was said to be the greatest sculptor in Athens. He made almost all the Olympics champions into statues and even made a cow, they say the cow statue is magical because it was made so good.

The most famous out of all his statues is probably Damonitus. Damonitus was actually a real man. He won the 512 B.C Olympics. This allowed Myron to do his work. He decided to make one of his favorite kinds of statues. He made Damonitus into a movement statue. This means the statues will be doing an action. The statues action was Damonitus about to throw the discus. That is probably why it became so popular. Though we haven’t been able to find the original statue we have been able to piece together what it looked like from pottery. Hundreds of copies have been sold worldwide. They are all made out of different materials such as marble, silver, and even the original material, bronze.**