The race planners for some fucking reason decided not to include water stations in the event to deliberately induce dehydration. There was only a single well in the 25-mile run, and the temperature was over 90F on super-dusty roads. The actual winner barely made it. 2/
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He ate rat poison mixed with brandy along the way in an attempt to keep going because it's also kind of a stimulant apparently? He had to be dragged by assistants across the finish line, and lost EIGHT POUNDS over the course of the marathon. 3/
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Another guy hitchhiked to participate in the race, cut his pants into shorts, but he hadn't eaten in 40 hours so he grabbed some apples along the run. They were rotten, so he got sick and had to lie down to nap... but still ended up getting 4th place. 4/
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Another guy got chased a mile off course by aggressive dogs. Another guy almost DIED after inhaling too much dirt kicked up by race officials cars. In conclusion, can this please be a movie?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_marathon …
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The marathon in 490 BC was also fairly dramatichttps://www.history.com/news/why-is-a-marathon-26-2-miles …
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The story of the marathon messenger dying is romantic invention and myth-making. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheidippides …https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a20836761/the-real-pheidippides-story/ …
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Amazing read but how did you come across this?
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Well known in St Louis
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Meta: this thread is eery because I learnt about this weird event very recently, as in the last seven days or so, because of a thread on Twitter; yet it wasn't this one, and I'm assuming you came up with this independently as there's no mention of the other thread anywhere.
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Yeah I found a reference to this event buried somewhere in a reddit thread
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