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Tues August 30th, 1904: Why NOT start an Olympic marathon in the middle of a hot summer afternoon? Because people aren’t going to finish. It was a complete disaster.
Some of the marathon contestants before the 1904 race.
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Wikipedia: 1904 Summer Olympics Marathon-The Facts
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