Since it’s an Olympic year, maybe people would like to see where it all started. In the ancient world there were four games: the Olympic, the Pythian (at Delphi), the Isthmian games and, finally, Nemean games at Nemea (see entry below). This is the stadium at the legendary Olympia. When I was here in 1981 I ran it. I was fast then, and fit! The path on the right was a long tunnel through which the athletes passed into the stadium, which only partially survives.