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Spiridon Louis
The thirty year
old Greek shepherd Spiridon Louis won the Marathon
in the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896
in front of nearly one lac people in 2hours 58minutes
50seconds.The event was a restaging of the famous
run in 490 B.C. by Pheidippides bringing the news
of the victory of Greek over Persians at Marathon.Apart
from the trophy donated by a French delegate, the
simple man asked only for a horse and cart to help
his daily work of carrying water home twice running
13miles along the pony to Athens and back to his
village each trip i.e. running 26 miles ,the distance
of a Marathon course.
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