How many countries competed in the ancient Olympic Games?

有几多国家参加古代奥林匹克运动会？

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The ancient Olympic Games began around the year 776 BC in Greece.

古代奥林匹克运动会创始于公元前776年左右。

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The Olympic flame is a symbol reminiscent of the ancient Olympic Games.

奥运圣火是人们缅怀古代奥运会的象征。

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When you get to say the middle of the nineteenth century and the work of the great English historian of Ancient Greece, George Grote, he begins his story in 776 with the Olympic Games.

十九世纪中叶,有一位研究古希腊的,伟大英国历史学家乔治·格罗特,他从公元776年的奥运会开始执笔

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The flame, meant to represent purity, was kindled from the rays of the sun using a parabolic mirror in a ceremony on 10 May at Olympia, the home of the ancient Olympic Games.

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"The removal from the Olympic program of traditional forms of sports, which were its basis from the beginning and were in the program of the Olympic Games even in the time of ancient Greece ... is unjustified, " Russian president Vladimir Putin said in March.

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