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Amazing facts about Olympic history Facts about Pheidippides. Pheidippides was a messenger soldier who famously ran a long distance from the battlefield at Marathon to Athens in order to tell the people that the Athenians had, in fact, won. In the past Olympics There was wrestling, boxing, and running, but did you know there were separate games for women, in some cases that rule violations resulted in physical punishment The first modern Olympic Games was hosted bye Athens Greece were 14 nations was participated  In the old age off, Greek Olympics became an integral part of Greek society. Every four years from 776BC to 393AD, thousands of people from all over the Greek world congregated for the competition Marathon was the first game introduction in Morden, Olympic athlete was covered 40 kilometres in their starting faced off Olympic The U.S., or more specifically CBS, first televised the Olympics during the 1960 Rome games There are 3 Awarding given by winning athletes the gold, s...