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🏅 Deportes {en}🏅 Sports{/en}

Ocio y Competición: Honor, sudor y gloria en la arena. La evolución del espectáculo y la competición física.

🦅 Roma SPQR

THE 35-MILLION MAN: Diocles retires, the Lusitanian charioteer who earned more money than any athlete in history and lived to tell the tale

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Rome, around AD 146. Gaius Appuleius Diocles hangs up the reins at 42 after 24 seasons, 4,257 starts and 1,462 victories in the Circus Maximus. His fortune— 35,863,120 sesterces—has never been matched by any sportsman. But the strangest figure on his tombstone is another one: that he is alive to…

Por Marco Claudio · 8 min de lectura

🎭 Grecia Times

FEATURE: Foul Play Under the Olympian Sun

Honor or drachmas? An investigation by Grecia Times uncovers a ring of bribes and 'stimulating' wine in the chariot final. The prestige of the olive crown hangs in the balance after the Spartan charioteer's collapse.

Por Pericles

🎭 Grecia Times

REPORTAJE: Trampas bajo el sol de Olimpia

¿Honor o Dracmas? Una investigación de Grecia Times destapa una red de sobornos y vino 'estimulante' en la final de cuadrigas. El prestigio de la corona de olivo, en entredicho tras el colapso del auriga espartano.

Por Pericles