A competition or contest where participants run on foot, competing to reach a finish line first.
From foot + race (a contest of speed), combining Old English 'fōt' with race (from Old Norse 'rás,' running). Footraces are among the oldest organized sports, dating back to ancient Greece and beyond.
The first Olympic Games in 776 BC consisted of just one event: a footrace called the stadion, which was roughly the length of a modern stadium—everything else like wrestling and the marathon came much later, making it the original Olympic sport.
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