The marathon is a long-distance running (44)____________ of 42.195 km (26 miles 85 yards) that can be run (45)____________ as a road race or off-road, for example, on mountain trails.  The name, “marathon”, (46)____________ from the legend of Pheidippides, a Greek soldier, (47)____________ was sent from the town of Marathon to Athens to (48)____________ that the Persians had been miraculously defeated in the Battle of Marathon, it (49)____________ that he ran the entire distance without stopping, but moments after proclaiming his message to the city he (50)____________ dead from exhaustion. The idea of (51)____________ a Marathon race came from Michel Bréal, who wanted the event to feature in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens. This idea was supported by Pierre de Coubertin, the (52)____________ of the modern Olympics. The winner of the first Olympic Marathon in 1896 (a male only race) was Spiridon “Spiros” Louis, a Greek water-carrier. He (53)____________ at the Olympics in 2 hours, 58 minutes

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