The Real Olympics Film Analysis

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The film that I saw during my History & Philosophy of Sports class was The Real Olympics which was released on August 3rd, 2004 by the PBS Video studio This film was about ancient history in how the games were played. In reality,” The Real Olympics sets out to demythologize the legendary sporting event by comparing and contrasting the ancient Greek games with their modern-day counterpart through archival footage and dramatic reenactments” (Real Olympics). This film that the instructor chose to show had a lot of significance to what he taught in the class specifically regarding to Greek athletes. Relating to the Greek’s character, it said during the film,” Winning is everything, losing did not matter.” Winning is the number one reason they

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