Text Box: 3. Athletic Events Text Box: Olympic-Torch Relay At the XX Olympiad, 1972, the Olympic Torch Relay was carried from Olympia to Munich. Basil was an Olympic Torch Torchbearer. He ran his torch relay distance towards Thebes grasping the flaming torch high and holding the branch of wild olive branch in his left hand. He ran three times the Marathon Races,’73, ’74, ’75 and now, by his 50s he is an Active Veteran Racer. Vlachokerasia Races, 2000 After a vivid athletic training Basil is back to his dearest environment in the Veteran Athletic Competitions. In Jan. 1998 in the 5,000m Race in Athens he got his first Veteran medal. He gained one more medal at Vlachokerasia Races ’98. The “Aianteia ’98 Race” was Basil’s first event on Salamis Island. All the friends encouraged him cordially. In 1999 Basil again participated at the Vlachokerasia Races ’99 gaining a gold medal, and another one in Karditsa in the “Karaïskakeia ’99”. The “Aianteia ’99” favored him with a cup. He enjoys running around the seaside roads of Salamis. Our children, too, welcome you on Cyberspace Tolly’s . Ancient Greek Athletic Training The epic poet Homer presents Ulysses in the Iliad fighting bravely with his utmost human strength. In Odyssey Homer portrays Ulysses’ hyperbody struggle for his return home; he never abandons the ideal straggle for this goal to the end of his life. The training of the ancient Greek youth targeted to the triple cultivation creating a broad mind, a brave heart and a strong body of the citizens throughout their whole life, keeping fit the persons energetically in creation from their early age, and making them enduring, courageous and wise during their old age. The peaceful and inspiring environment in Geneva was the ideal place that produced the “The Olympians” a delving into the Olympiads that both our sons and I enjoyed putting down, as our family’s contribution to the Olympic Movement.