Distance
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Olympic marathon distances |
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| Year | Distance (km) |
Distance (miles) |
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| 1896 | 40 | 24.85 |
| 1900 | 40.26 | 25.02 |
| 1904 | 40 | 24.85 |
| 1906 | 41.86 | 26.01 |
| 1908 | 42.195 | 26.22 |
| 1912 | 40.2 | 24.98 |
| 1920 | 42.75 | 26.56 |
| 1924 onward | 42.195 | 26.22 |
The length of an Olympic marathon was not precisely fixed at first, but the marathon races in the first few Olympic Games were about 40 kilometres (25 mi), roughly the distance from Marathon to Athens by the longer, flatter route. The exact length depended on the route established for each venue.
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Famous quotes containing the word distance:
“Remember? We sat on a slab of rock.
From this distance in time,
it seems the color
of iris, rotting and turning purpler,
but it was only
the usual gray rock”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“Like the water, the Walden ice, seen near at hand, has a green tint, but at a distance is beautifully blue, and you can easily tell it from the white ice of the river, or the merely greenish ice of some ponds, a quarter of a mile off.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)