We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,033,951-week series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics—Men’s Marathon What it’s about: Olympic glory, in the ...

Today, we know the Olympic marathon as one the most revered and lavish of athletic events where our demigods of endurance are canonized. But when the United States hosted the 1904 Summer Olympic Games ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. OLYMPIC LEGEND: Of the first two finishers of the 1904 Olympic Marathon, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Olympic events the top three always gets all the attention, for obvious reasons- they win medals and stand on the podium. The ...

Rat poison, an open marathon course and flagrant cheating during the race just the tip of the weird 1904 Olympic iceberg in St. Louis. Every Olympic Games has its share of controversy and a unique ...

You know what the Olympic Marathon event is missing? Cars. Cars would really add that extra oomph to the event. This glaring omission hasn't always been the case, though: in 1904, a runner named Fred ...

Englishman Thomas J. Hicks competed for the United States and wore the colors of a Cambridge, Mass, track club. The Third Olympiad, held here as part of the 1904 World's Fair, was a rag-tag madcap ...

ST. LOUIS — Just south of where Shaftesbury Avenue meets North and South Road lies a large sign, a marker commemorating the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Marathon. Although that intersection was just a slice ...

EDITOR’S NOTE - With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at the history of Summer Games. This story was transmitted from the ...

Jan Mashiani and Len Tau, both South Africans from the Tswana tribe, went down in history as the first Black Africans to take part in a modern Olympic Games. The year was 1904, in Saint Louis, in the ...