Bureau of Labor Statistics figures indicate that automotive technicians earned an average annual salary of $38,560 and an average hourly wage of $18.54 as of May 2011.
Greece is the home country of the Olympic Games. Olympia, a Greek city, was known to be a very important centre of athletics. The Olympic games, held there every four years, were so important in Greek life that they were used as the basis for the Greek calendar.
The Panhellenic games, which pitted one Greek polis (city-state; pl. poleis) against another, were religious events and athletic competitions for talented, generally wealthy, individual athletes in the areas of speed, strength, dexterity, and endurance, according to Sarah Pomeroy in Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History (1999).