This has long been one of my favorite pieces of Olympic lore. I’ve always enjoyed the winner being disqualified because he’d actually been in a car for part of the race (yet still posted a worse time than past marathons), but there were a lot of new tidbits in here!
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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1y
My favorite
lewdian69@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
This was wild! Strychnine, dehydration, severe internal injuries from breathing dust while running... wowza.
danekrae@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Holy shit. #20 looks just like Daniel Craig.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
Daniel Craig immortal day walker vampire confirmed. Controversial Blade prequel trilogy incoming.
jqubed@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
This has long been one of my favorite pieces of Olympic lore. I’ve always enjoyed the winner being disqualified because he’d actually been in a car for part of the race (yet still posted a worse time than past marathons), but there were a lot of new tidbits in here!
walden@sub.wetshaving.social · 2 pts · 1y
There's an episode of Stuff You Should Know about this event.
Aku@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Oh cool I did not know that. I’ll check it out!
walden@sub.wetshaving.social · 1 pts · 1y
I'm on my phone so this is the best I can do for a link https://stuffyoushouldknow.com/episodes/&_search=1904
dantheclamman@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
This would make a good movie! Strychnine as a performance enhancer, TIL