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The original Olympic games were held in honour of Zeus (God) so really the games should be held in the Mount Athos region of Greece an autonomous monastic stare in Greece.

What better place to hold games originally religious in nature from Greece than this region?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Athos




What does Christianity have to do with Dodekatheism at all? Also, have you seen mount Athos? It's mainly only trees and it's very mountainous http://www.star.gr/publishingimages/2014/08/020814141543_327...

Besides, access to the region is prohibited for women and such a big event would completely fuck up their culture and lifestyle.


Well, there are women athletes, so that wouldn't work. (Entry to Mount Athos is only allowed to men)


> The original Olympic games were held in honour of Zeus (God) so really the games should be held in the Mount Athos region of Greece an autonomous monastic stare in Greece.

I don't follow the "logic" here at all. What makes Mount Athos more appropriate than, say, Olympia, the traditional site of the Olympic games?


User Gys (above) suggested an uninhabited island but the Mount Athos region is pretty sparse 126 sq miles and 1800 people living there, still technically Greece but not Mount Olympus although sort of near it (100 miles away).

I don't mean literally on Mount Athos but in the autonomous region.

Plus being an autonomous region I thought it may more sense financially for taxes.




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