Regarding foot racing, one of the popular athletic events of the day, the book Backgrounds of Early Christianity tells us that “the Greeks exercised and competed in the nude. ”
٣ مَاذَا يَتَعَلَّمُ ٱلْمَسِيحِيُّونَ مِمَّا قَالَهُ بُولُسُ عَنِ ٱلْعَدَّائِينَ فِي ٱلْأَلْعَابِ ٱلْيُونَانِيَّةِ ؟‏