Raw eggs, brandy, and strychnine
March 9th, 2010
The marathon at the 1904 Olympic games at St Louis must give hope to the organisers of London’s 2012 Games. No matter how much they cock things up, they’ll never surpass St Louis:
The 1904 Olympics were such a farce that the Olympic Committee were somewhat forced to hold an interim games only 2 years later at Athens.
[Via The Memory Palace podcast, which devoted episode #26 to the story of the 1904 Olympic marathon.]
