The winner of the Arhens 1896 first modern Olympics was a Greek water carrier called Spyridon Louis,and this movie is a heavily fictionalized version of his story. They used Jayne Mansfield to sell the movie and she plays some sipposedly famous Greek actress of the time who has an affair with a Greek athlete. Theres a scene where she is undressing but her part is not very lengthy. What is interesting about this is they shot it on location in Greece and they used the actual stadium where the real games took place. There is a lot of footage of a reenactment of the 1896 games shot in the stadium filled with local crowd which is interesting. The rest is all about, what was to become the american team who actually won most of the gold medals in athletics which were the main event in the main stadium. The americans went there actually representing themselves since nobody in the US at the time thought these games would amount to anything. The IOC has since registered the athletes as representing the USA. One last thng,i wish FOX would release this either on DVD or Bluray in its Cinemascope frame,the actual DVD they are selling is cropped in 4/3 old TV format and missing most of hte original framing which makes it terrible especially in the wide angle scenes of the Olympic stadium.