Athletic also know as track and field. Athletic is a collection of sport event that involve running, throwing, and jumping. The name is derived from the Greek word “Althon” Meaning “Contest “Track and field or athletic, consider as the mother discipline of all sport and games. The Olympic Games are held in four year intervals, and later the Greek method of counting the year even referred to these games. Using the term Olympic for the period between two games. The historian Ephorus Who lived in the 4th century BC is believed to have invented the use of Olympiads to count years much as we today use AD and BC. Previously every Greek state used its own dating system, some thing that continued for local event, which led to confusion when trying to determine dates. “(Diodorus) states that there was solar eclipse in third year of the 117th Olympiad. Which must be the eclipse of 310BC? This given us a date of (mid-summer) 776 BC for the first year of the first Olympiad” Nevertheless. . Romans were found of Athletic. They aimed at military proficiency through games and sports. 
At present, track-and-field consist of running, hurdling, jumping and throwing events held between individuals and teams at indoor and outdoor meets. The running and hurdling competitions make up the track events, while the jumping and throwing contests comprise the field events. In many countries the sports as a whole is called athletics. Running races are the most prominent track events; the range in length from the indoor 50 meter dash to the outdoor marathon.