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Athletics at the Summer Olympics
Athletics
has been contested at every
Summer Olympics
since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the
1896 Summer Olympics
. The athletics program traces its earliest roots to events used in the
ancient Greek Olympics
. The modern program includes
track and field
events,
road running
events, and
racewalking
events.
Cross country running
was also on the program in earlier editions but it was dropped after the
1924 Summer Olympics
.
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