The Pentathalon was originated in 776 B.C in Olympia and it was held once every four years.  In the Pentathalon, there were only five events, and now there are 30 events.  Today there is a winter olympics, and they did not have that Before Christ. There still are the origional five events, javalin, race, wrestilng, long jump, and discus, but now there are different sports in each one event.  In the race event, there is hurdles, 100m, 400m, 800m,1000m, and marathon. The purpose of the Pentathalon was to see who was the strongest warrior.  The purpose today is to see who is the best athelete at a sport.  Today anyone can come to watch the olympics, but back then if you were not a Greek man, then you were not allowed to even go near the stadium.  If you were a woman or a slave and you were caught by the stadium, you would be killed. Today both men and women from around the world participate in the olymics.  There are plans to add golf and rugby to the 2016 olympics in Brazil.  I love sports and I look forward to watching the olympics in four years.