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The first man home had taken a car. The winner was kept going with strychnine. And the man who came fourth stopped to snack on stolen peaches. On 30 August 1904, at the World's Fair in St. Louis, about thirty men ran the Olympic marathon at three in the afternoon, in the heat, on dusty country roads, with one well for water. Finn goes through what the 1904 sources actually say: Fred Lorz's ride, Félix Carvajal's stroll, Len Tau and Jan Mashiani, the first Black Africans to run at the Olympics, William Garcia's collapse, and Thomas Hicks, the official winner, kept going by his own handler with strychnine, egg whites and brandy. No one died in this race, but it came close. Some popular details are myths: Hicks wasn't carried over the line, and the fruit was peaches, not apples. Chapters 0:00 The strangest race ever run 0:18 St. Louis, 1904 1:05 The roads 2:18 Fred Lorz 3:16 Félix Carvajal 4:19 Len Tau and Jan Mashiani 5:05 Thomas Hicks 6:20 So who actually won? Sources - Charles J. P. Lucas, The Olympic Games 1904 (1905), ch. II, The Marathon Race. https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll8/id/8216 - James E. Sullivan, comp., Spalding's Official Athletic Almanac for 1905. https://archive.org/details/1904-spal - Associated Press race report, 30 Aug 1904 (reprinted 2020). https://www.ksat.com/sports/2020/07/24/ap-was-there-1904-st-louis-olympics/ - Olympedia, Marathon, Men, 1904 Summer Olympics. https://www.olympedia.org/results/56131 - Bill Mallon, The 1904 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events (1999). https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll16/id/1 - Floris J. G. van der Merwe, Africa's first encounter with the Olympic Games in 1904, Journal of Olympic History (1999). https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll10/id/3318 - Clément Genty, The 1904 marathon, an unfinished story?, Journal of Olympic History (2023). https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll10/id/24044 - C. Robert Barnett, The 1904 Olympic marathon (1979). https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll10/id/10405 - Karen Abbott, Smithsonian (2012, updated 2024). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-1904-olympic-marathon-may-have-been-the-strangest-ever-14910747/ - St. Louis Magazine (2021). https://www.stlmag.com/history/what-happened-at-the-1904-olympic-marathon/ - The Olympic Museum, Frederick Lorz. https://artsandculture.google.com/story/frederick-lorz-the-olympic-museum/sgUxAm5ib1H85A - NOAA NCEI daily weather records, St. Louis, August 1904. - World Anti-Doping Agency, 2026 Prohibited List. Music: made for this video with ElevenLabs Music. Narration: an AI voice (ElevenLabs). Animation: Finn's Tales.

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