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"The ode as a poetic form was, as far as we know, invented by the world's first great sports writer, Pindar, who wrote his poems to celebrate the winners of athletic contests, especially those associated with the Olympics. His odes, or praise poems, were intended for theatrical performance by a chorus, and the stanzaic pattern matched the mode of performance." - The Guardian