Let’s bring it back, not as part of the actual Olympics but as a side event (and sorry harness racing devotees and Ben Hur fans, there will be no chariot racing). Let’s just for a second dream ...

Ancient Olympics - Yep, just like in the movies, the original Olympic Games had chariot racing events. Both 2-horse and 4-horse chariots made 12 laps around a stadium track and the winners were ...

Chariot racing was a sport that only the wealthiest ... The pentathlon was the event from which the modern Olympics derives many of its events, including the discus, javelin, long jump, running ...

Chariot racing only really came in when the chariot's time on the battlefield was over. It became part of the Greek Olympic Games, and in Roman times chariot racing - as re-enacted in the film Ben ...

In ancient Olympics, chariot races and horse racing used to be part of the program. Horses continue to remain in focus and this year at the Paris Olympics in July-August, an Indian, for the first ...

The Ancient Olympic Games were a magnificent spectacle that ... pankration (a combination of boxing and wrestling), and chariot racing. The sanctuary of Olympia, situated in the north-western ...

Perhaps a century after the founding of the Olympics in 776 B.C., chariot and jockeyed races were included in the games. This provided an opportunity for families to display their “hippic ...