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DAVID MINTHORN, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
01-27-2004
Dateline: NEW YORK
Soccer moms, tennis dads and rabid fans of Little League have nothing on their predecessors of sports-mad ancient Greece.

Olympia's youngest champion, 12-year-old Damsicus of Messene, was crowned with the traditional olive wreath and showered with acclaim for winning the boy's sprint in 368 B.C. At the Panathenaia games in Athens, the winner of the boys' sprint collected 50 urns filled with 2,000 liters of olive oil. Nearly 2,000 such vases were commissioned every four years for winners of the various events, ...

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