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    HISTORY

    There is little in the way of definitive records of athletics’ early


    days as organized sport. Egyptian and Asian civilizations are
    known to have encouraged athletics many centuries before the
    Christian era. Perhaps as early as 1829 BCE, Ireland was the
    scene of the Lugnasad festival’s Tailteann Games, involving
    various forms of track-and-field activity. The Olympic
    Games of Greece, traditionally dated from 776 BCE, continued
    through 11 centuries before ending about 393 CE. These ancient
    Olympics were strictly male affairs, as to both participants and
    spectators. Greek women were reputed to have formed their
    own Heraea Games, which, like the Olympics, were held every
    four years.
    The first meet in North America was held near Toronto in 1839,
    but it was the New York Athletic Club, formed in the 1860s, that
    placed the sport on a solid footing in the United States. The club
    held the world’s first indoor meet and helped promote the
    formation in 1879 of the National Association of Amateur
    Athletes of America (NAAAA) to conduct national championships.
    Nine years later the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) took over as
    national governing body, amid reports that the NAAAA was lax in
    enforcing amateurism.

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