Also, I believe the guy who finished first was disqualified for riding in a car for part of the race. I could be misremembering though.
Mostly TrueLooks like the srychnine was intended as a performance enhancing drug, but Hicks was carried over the finish line by his team, so he should have by rights been disqualified.
Some pretty crazy shit, all in all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics_–_Men's_marathon
Not having eaten in 40 hours, he saw a spectator eating two peaches. He asked if he could have the peaches, and the spectator declined. He then stole both peaches and ran away.
Lol
I mean, give the fucking man some peaches.
Got to be millions of those bastards.
I would watch the shit out of this as a movie. Why isn’t this a movie?
From the wikipedia:
While Frederick Lorz was greeted as the apparent winner, he was later disqualified as he had hitched a ride in a car for part of the race.
Seriously go read the wiki, this post barely scratches the surface of the nonsense that went down
