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The Curious Case of Shizo Kanakuri's 1912 Olympic Marathon Run (2018x243)

Ausstrahlung: Sep 13, 2018

If you→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut A 60 Hour Race So Intense That Only 14 of Over 1000 Ultra-marathoners Have Ever Completed It https://youtu.be/0p8FCybZO8E?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k Why No One Uses the Official Olympic Salute Anymore https://youtu.be/tnISASAjbEE?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k In this video: When it comes to Olympic level track and field events, history tends to only remember those who ran the fastest, jumped the farthest and pushed themselves further than their peers. Shizo Kanakuri is an apparent exception to that rule because he’s fondly remembered for having the worst official time of any Olympic marathon runner in history, taking over 54 years to finish a race he started in 1912. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/07/curious-case-shizo-kanakuris-1912-olympic-marathon-run/ Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20120302100521/http://www.lydiardfoundation.org/Blog/EntryDisplay.aspx?EntryID=111 http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2012/07/15/general/better-late-than-never-for-japans-first-slowest-olympian/#.WXX9FLIrLrd https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/shizo-kanakuri-1.html https://www.si.com/vault/1967/04/03/608939/scorecard http://www.jubileemarathon.se/start/content.cfm?Sec_ID=2678&Rac_ID=170&Lan_ID=3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_L%C3%A1zaro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_Summer_Olympics https://books.google.com/books?id=L13P2hF33PUC&pg=PT171&lpg=PT171&dq=Shiso+Kanakuri&source=bl&ots=QojDgZsw-F&sig=AyE26eYFtTzoWkBic2ZupaV1Glk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjV1dW_u6XVAhUJw1QKHRnGDN8Q6AEIQjAF#v=onepage&q=Shiso%20Kanakuri&f=false Music from Jukedeck - create your own at http://jukedeck.com.