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The article reports on the study conducted to trace ancient Olympia's most famous racecourses in Germany. It notes that the hippodrome were chariot races took place, was considered the largest structure in the ancient Greek sports complex. When archaelogists excavated the site more than a century ago, but they found no traces of these equipment, thus they assumed that flooding from the nearby Alfeiós River had washed it away. Based on the reinterpretation of a medieval text, it prompted historians Norbert Müller of the University of Mainz and collegues to look again by using geomagnetic mapping and georadar and found evidence of long, parallel ditches, walls and earthworks along the 1.2-kilometers stretch of two meters below the current surface.