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I recently found an article by the Smithsonian magazine talking about the 1904 Olympic marathon.

Nothing seemed really suspicious but I wanted to double-check that this information is real. So I did a quick Wikipedia search on the Smithsonian magazine to check if they’re a credible source or not. And in the Wikipedia article, the Smithsonian Institution was described as a group of museums and research centres across the U.S. So it’s safe to say that the information that they give would be credible information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution 

I also did a quick search for the 1904 Olympic marathon on Snopes.com but didn’t find any articles on it.

And finally, I did a search for other sources in the news tab of the google searches. I found a few articles on the 1904 Olympic marathon but not many.

The 1904 Olympic marathon has been widely regarded as the craziest race ever. The race was held on a hot summer day during the 1904 Olympics held in St. Louis. It was 90 degrees Fahrenheit on that day(32 celsius.) The entire race was 24.85 miles long ( 40 km.) With only two water stations at the 6 and 12-mile mark. Of the 32 racers that participated only 14 of whom finished the race. The race was situated along a dusty road where cars drove past often so not only were there only two water stations plus the heat and the dust that the cars picked up severe cases of dehydration were common during the race. especially when the racers were refused water by their helpers. Instead one particular racer Thomas Hicks also the winner of the marathon was given a mixture of egg whites and strychnine a common form of rat poison. Strychnine was believed to have performance-enhancing abilities when applied to athletes in small doses. This was simply untrue and when Thomas drank the cocktail he paces started to slow down he started to sweat furiously and began turning pale white. He was then given another dose of this cocktail and was given a shot a liquor to help swallow it. nearing the finish line he had to be dragged across the finish line. He was then treated by doctors and barely survived. All of this was specifically planned out by the event organizer James E. Sullivan. He conducted an experiment to see what severe dehydration does to an athlete. And this concludes the story of the craziest race ever.