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Runners lined up at the start of the 1904 St. Louis Olympic marathon receiving instructions
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The 1904 St. Louis Olympic Marathon Was a Bizarre Disaster That Also Included the First Black African Olympic Marathon Runners

By
Sthitapragya Chakraborty
Prathamesh Kabra

On August 30th, 1904, St. Louis experienced the epitome of absurdity in the Olympic marathon. The runners collapsed, hallucinated, were…

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