1904 Summer Olympics –Men's Marathon

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_marathon

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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1y

My favorite

While Frederick Lorz was greeted as the apparent winner, he was later disqualified as he had hitched a ride in a car for part of the race.

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 (1 reply)

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 (2 replies)

There's an episode of Stuff You Should Know about this event.

Aku@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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