Athletics is the oldest sport in the world, originating in 776 BC in Greece. The Greeks developed athletic competitions involving running, jumping, and throwing, from which the sport takes its name. Athletics competitions focus on measuring performance over distance and time. There are many disciplines in athletics involving individual and group events held indoors and outdoors, including races, jumps, and throws using implements like discus, javelin, and shot put. The universal appeal of athletics stems from its use of basic elements that are easy to practice anywhere, although persistence is key to excelling in the sport.

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ROCÍO GÓMEZ GUARDIA

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• Did you know that athletics is the eldest sport in the world? Incredibly, this sport comes
from so far away, 776 a.C. right in Greece. There they came up with the idea of creating a
sport related with several actions that the human being does usually, such as jumping,
running, walking or even throwing things. The date when this sport was born and the
place where it was born tell us where it’s name comes from, Greek words like “athletes”
derived to the name athletics, the same as the word “aethos” which means fight, from
here comes the main objective of this sport “the fight against time and distance.
Distance and time are the esencials keys of athletics, which are the base of all the
disciplines of this sport. This disciplines can be done in groups or individually, in covered
areas or even outdoors.There’s a great variety of disiciplines, which are divided
depending of the thing that is done in each one. Firstly the ones related with throwing,
some of them are discus throw, hammer throw, javelin throw and shot put, the ones
related with races there os road running, sprints, steepchase, etc. We also found
disciplines related with jumping like, high jump, triple jump, pole vault and some others
such as relays, marathons, hepthatlon, decathlon, etc. All this events requires simple and
basic elements which is an easy point to be practised unicersally, but the very important
thing to practised this sport is persistence.

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