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Let me introduce you guys to the utterly WILD 1904 summer olympics men's marathon, in which 32 men competed, but only 14 actually finished. The winner cheated; he hitchhiked on a car through most of the race, almost got gold, and when he was caught he insisted he was joking. 1/

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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

4:55 PM · Mar 14, 2021