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a god with better PR, or an athlete who trained like one.
means someone who competes in the olympics, or by extension, a person of superhuman skill or detached, godlike grandeur.
from from mount olympus, home of the greek gods — the original olympian games in 776 bce were literally staged to honor zeus, so calling an athlete olympian once meant you thought they might be him.
first championa cook named coroebus won the first olympics, 776 bce
double meaningcan insult someone as aloof and distant, oddly
no medals originallyancient winners got olive wreaths, not gold
women bannedmarried women couldn't even watch the ancient games