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The Origin of the Marathon: Linking Past to Present
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:14:58
Publish Date: 2013-08-17 17:34:00
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(Esther) The story of the most popular long-distance event, from its origins in ancient literature to the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, and how a young farmer, Spyridon 'Spyros' Louis (1873-1940), became an unlikely national hero.
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