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The inaugural winner was a cook who received the first-ever victory wreath, cut from the nearby sacred olive ... Olympics, they could earn vast sums of money at other games held throughout the Greek ...

Only men were allowed to compete in the Ancient Olympic Games. Women had their own games called Heraia. Victors at the Olympics and the Heraia won the same prize: an olive branch wreath from the ...

The Games began in 776BC in ancient Greece at the ... at every Games. The olive leaf crown — an enduring symbol of the Games — also carried deep meaning. "The olive wreath wasn't necessarily ...

At the Panhellenic Games, there was only one winner whose prize was a wreath or crown of leaves. At each of the venues, the crowns were made with different types of leaves: At Olympia, it was a wild ...