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1904 Olympic Marathon
Stuff You Missed in History Class
The History of the Boston Marathon
The 1904 marathon is considered the most chaotic such event in modern Olympic history. Fred Lors was banned from the amateur athletic union for life, but that band did not hold. Of the 32 men who started the race, only 14 of them finished it. It's been estimated that Carvahal's stops to chat and nap cost him about an hour of time so he probably would have won had he not done that.
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