Even before our era, special flat areas began to be prepared for sports competitions. The first stadium (mid-VI century BC) has been preserved on the outskirts of Olympia, where the founder of the modern Olympic movement, Pierre de Coubertin, is buried. This stadium is an almost rectangular platform, on one side of which the hillside served as a tribune for spectators, on the other, a specially made embankment was used as a tribune. In those days, they ran and jumped naked, believing that rags like a tunic fluttering in the wind reduce athletic performance.→