ince its use in the first Olympics, the Olive wreath has come to represent honour & peace. It is featured in the symbol of the United Nations and the Great Seal of the United States.

The oil extracted from this vegetable of the Mediterranean region: "the Olive," was used in cooking and for protection from mosquitoes. The people of Anatolia who spent day by day applying Olive oil on to their bodies, continued to wrestle with their bodies oiled, and a new style of wrestling surfaced from this condition: "oil wrestling."

Turkey's oil wrestlers are generally described as burly men who cover themselves in Olive oil and grapple with each other wearing leather trousers. They battle to pin each other to the ground in a triumphant grip.