The modern-day marathon is based on the remarkable efforts of an Athenian messenger.
Today's marathons serve as a reminder of the courageous deeds of an ancient Greek messenger who ran not just 26 miles, but 300, and completed this amazing feat of endurance running in just three days.
Michel Bréal came up with the concept of a marathon because he wanted it to be a part of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. The Greeks and Pierre de Coubertin, who founded the modern Olympics, both strongly backed this notion.
Pheidippides was the messenger soldier who famously traveled a great distance from the Marathon battlefield to Athens to inform the populace that the Athenians had, in fact, won. He is also known by the name Pheidippides. He immediately passed away from exhaustion after delivering his message.
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