Olympic Games: 15 Strange Marathon Moments!
15 strange marathon moments brings you strange though funny moments in the History of Olympic games, some are surprising, some are hysterical and some are just plain exhaustion!
In the 1904 marathon, an athlete time when he was chased of course by two dogs. He came back again and managed to finish ninth only.
In 1908, an athlete of South Africa was in the lead until he drank a glass of champagne somebody offered him. Not long after he collapsed with stomach pains and dizziness.
In 1986, Edwin Flack of Australia was accompanied by his butler on a bicycle to keep him supplies with drinks. It didn't work though, near the end he collapsed, not the butler, Flack.
An athlete won a marathon in 1960 and again in 1964 only five weeks after his appendix was taken out! He felt so well that after the race he spent five minutes doing exercises!
An athlete of Czechoslovakia easily won the 1952 marathon, the first he'd ever run. He told a reporter afterwards, "The marathon really is a very boring race!" Because he wanted to get over and done with that, he beat the world marathon record by six minutes!
A female athlete from Portugal won the women's marathon in 1988. She would wear a white painter's cap back-to-front to keep her hair out of her eyes and shade her neck from the sun.
A famous Finnish athlete had a nasty attack of Diarrhea in the 1980 race. The only place to go was behind some nearby bushes! He dropped out of the race not long after.
A women winner of the first women's marathon in 1984 occasionally dreamt that she was trapped in a department store while the race was starting outside!
A marathon athlete started the 1906 marathon weighing in at 50kg. When he finished the marathon, he weighed only 44kg!
In 1972, a hoaxer, pretended to be an athlete. He stripped down to his underwear just before the athletes arrived, then dashed into the stadium. He managed to complete a lap before being grabbed by the guards and take away!
A Portugal athlete died of sunstroke in 1912
In the 1948 race, an athlete was in the lead as he entered the stadium with only a few hundred yards to go. But he was too exhausted. He was passed by two other athletes before he could reach the end.
In 1912, a Japanese athlete dropped out of the race with heat exhaustion. He vowed that he'd finish the race someday and he did. In 1967 he went back to the Olympic stadium and ran the final lap. So his time for the race was 54 years, 2 days, 32 minutes, 20.35 seconds.
IN the 1904 marathon, an athlete of the USA was first man out of the stadium t the start and first man in gain at the finish. Looking as though he'd hardly run at all. This was because he'd hardly run at all! After getting a cramp, he hitched a lift back by a car. As they got near the end, the car broke down. But by then sneaky he was feeling better. So he got out and ran the last bit to the finish line! He was banned for life.
The 1908 marathon in London was run in hot and humid weather. By the time he got to the stadium the leader, a tiny athlete of Italy was so exhausted he collapsed twice on the track! In the end he had to be helped over the line by an official and was promptly disqualified. Queen Alexandria felt so sorry for him that she awarded him his own cup as a consolation cup.
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