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.

Many pivotal developments in the course of history did not start in palace halls or parliaments, but rather on battlefields where soldiers and warriors faced deadly opposition and risked their lives ...

The Persian invasion was a delayed response to the defeat of the first Persian invasion of Greece, which had been ended by the Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. Xerxes had ...

For the first time in years, the Marathon Dolphins notched wins over both of their in-county rivals on the hardwood in a ...