Spartakiades: when the USSR organized its own Olympic Games
The term was carefully chosen. When the Soviets decided to organize their first sporting event in 1928, they took up the idea of the Czechoslovakian Jiří František Chaloupecký, who had named a local gymnastics competition Spartakiades – a double reference to the slave revolt led by Spartacus (and crushed in 71 BCE by Rome) and […]
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