Pericles insisted that Athens would win the war by superior planning ... Phidippides' & the First Marathon When the Persian army landed at Marathon in 490 BC, the Athenians chose Phidippides ...

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The annual Classic City Marathon was held in Athens, Georgia, on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2024. The 26.5-mile course started on North Lumpkin Street, between East Hancock Avenue and East Washington Street.

The marathon as a modern sporting event, inspired by the Pheidippides legend, was introduced at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. In 1908, the current marathon distance of 26.2 ...

The history of the marathon's distance is rooted in the very spirit for which the Olympics were created, and an event that occurred in 1908.