The Olympic Marathon Fueled by Rat Poison, Lies, and Rotten Apples
It was a stage set for a horror story. The air on August 30, 1904, was a suffocating blanket of 90-degree heat and crushing humidity. The course was a 24.85-mile gauntlet of unpaved country roads, choked with dust and teeming with oblivious civilian traffic. This wasn’t just a race; it was a cruel, twisted experiment […]
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