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1904 Olympic Marathon
Stuff You Missed in History Class
The Racism of the 1904 Olympics
The 1904 St. Louis games were the first Olympics to have a gold, silver and bronze medal system. There were 630 athletes who competed and 523 of those were from the US. This led to a situation where some events only included US athletes as competitors. The way attendance shook out for athletes skewed the numbers really heavily for the US participants.
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