1904 Summer Olympics –Men's Marathon
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This was wild! Strychnine, dehydration, severe internal injuries from breathing dust while running... wowza.
Holy shit. #20 looks just like Daniel Craig.
Daniel Craig immortal day walker vampire confirmed. Controversial Blade prequel trilogy incoming.
This has long been one of my favorite pieces of Olympic lore. I’ve always enjoyed the winner being disqualified because he’d actually been in a car for part of the race (yet still posted a worse time than past marathons), but there were a lot of new tidbits in here!
There's an episode of Stuff You Should Know about this event.
Oh cool I did not know that. I’ll check it out!
I'm on my phone so this is the best I can do for a link https://stuffyoushouldknow.com/episodes/&_search=1904
This would make a good movie! Strychnine as a performance enhancer, TIL