Episode 49.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] 1904 Olympic Marathon

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, or at least maybe finish a marathon.  Things could have gone a whole lot better for the rag-tag band of competitors at the St. Louis Olympics.  Dusty roads, ancient wars, rotten apples, and rat poison...

 

Peter's song pick:: Untitled by Andrew Hulshult
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGK1dr-Ql0w&t=3635s

 

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