2010世博会的英文介绍,最好是短篇,简单点的

There are many different stories about the beginning of the Olympics. One myth says that the guardians of the infant god Zeus held the first footrace, or that Zeus himself started the Games to celebrate his victory over his father Cronus for control of the world.

Another tradition states that after the Greek hero Pelops won a chariot race against King Oenomaus to marry Oenomaus's daughter Hippodamia, he established the Games. Athletic games also were an important part of many religious festivals from early on in ancient Greek culture.

In the Iliad, the famous warrior Achilles holds games as part of the funeral services for his best friend Patroclus.

The events in them include a chariot race, a footrace, a discus match, boxing and wrestling. The footrace was the sole event for the first 13 Olympiads.

Over time, the Greeks added longer footraces, and separate events. The pentathlon and wrestling events were the first new sports to be