Anonymous ID: ec4239 June 4, 2020, 12:18 p.m. No.9468584   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>9468502The ancient Greeks weren't the ones that came up with the distance. It was the British.

 

For the 1908 London Olympics, the course was laid out from Windsor Castle to White City stadium, about 26 miles. However, to locate the finish line in front of the royal family's viewing box, an extra 385 yards was added inside the stadium. Hence the marathon tradition of yelling "God save the Queen" in the last mile.