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How were the winners rewarded in earlier times in olympics?



How were the winners rewarded in earlier times in olympics?

How is this a bike racing question?
They were allowed to live.
Orgies with lots of beautiful women.
The winners received a crown of olive leaves, and often had poems written about them and statues built in their honor.
They didn't race motorcycles back then.

They wanted to but everyone was wating around for someone to invent the internal combustion engine.

Aristotle wrote about how great it would be to have a motorcycle.

Maybe you need to ask this question in the chariot racing section...


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They received a wreath of Laurels - which is where the title laureate is derived from.

But as Chuckee pointed out, they were pretty light in the motor racing section of the games.
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