The Origin of the Marathon: Linking Past to Present

Published: Aug. 17, 2013, 10:34 p.m.

b"(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."