If you think it’s difficult getting hold of tickets for the Olympics today, married women weren’t even allowed to watch the ancient games in Olympia. If they were caught trying to sneak in then they’d be thrown off a cliff to their death.

Hockey gets its name from the French word ‘hocquet’, which means ‘shepherd’s crook’.

Competitors at the ancient Olympic games generally competed in the nude – however in one race called the Hoplitodromos, they raced in the full armour of the Hoplite soldier.