1900's Sports | "Dorando Defeats Hayes in Marathon"

Newspaper article

By: The New York Times

Date: March 16, 1909

Source: "Dorando Defeats Hayes in Marathon." The New York Times, March 16, 1909, 7.

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Introduction

In the first decade of the 1900s, marathon racing was still a new form of endurance competition. Encouraged by national pride and the donation of a gold cup for the winner from French classicist and historian Michel Breal, the Organizing Committee of the Athens Olympics introduced the twenty-six mile race at the 1896 Olympics. Although ancient...