What Do You Know About the “Hera Games”?

As we all know that the Olympic Games of Greek antiquity didn't allow women to participate in, but surprisingly, there were women's Olympic Games in ancient GreeceThe women's Olympic Games in the ancient Greece was also known as "Hera Games". Hera was the wife of Zeus who was the king of all of the gods and worshiped by people in ancient Greece. It was said that the Hera Games was founded in the six Century BC by Hippodamia, the wife of the founder of the ancient Olympic Games, Per Ropes. In order to celebrate the happiness of marriage and reward Queen Hera, Hippodamia organized the first women's athletics in Olympia composed by the 16 girls out of the 16 states.After that, it became an important custom. The "Hera Games" was also organized for once every four years at Holy Land in Olympia at the end of June and the beginning of July by the age of the competitors in three groups. The main project of the Hera Games was women's race which was relatively shorter compared with that of men's And the youngest women group's running distance was approximately 32 meters.The winner of the Hera Games will also be awarded a corolla made of the holy olive branches, and get a ritual of beef used for the memorial of the god as it is in the Olympic Games, what's more, he or she can also leave their own portraits at Olympia. As the record described, it was not until the Roman Empire invaded Greece that the Hera Games was ended with a history of about 146 years.To Chinese badminton team, today's semifinal between WangYihan and Nehwal undoubtedly was the highlight of the women's singles arena. For this reason, LiYongbo personally command WangYihan in this competition. When faults occurred, LiYongbo yelled, just like "play steadily" and "don't worry" or other simple words, there was no specific technical and tactical guidance.WangYihan gave a closely hug to Li and other coaches after the competition finished, she said because she never had lost Nehwal before, therefore she occupied the superiority in the psychology. Normal 0 7.8 Å 0 2 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:nh<; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}

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