This week we take a look at one of the oddest sporting events I've ever heard of.  A time when performance enhancing drugs were allowed, and the whole thing was almost lethal.

Logo Design: Vanessa Chavez

Sources:

The Olympic Games, 1904 by Charles J.P. Lucas: https://www.loc.gov/item/06003479/

Olympedia: http://www.olympedia.org

The 1904 Olympic Marathon May Have Been the Strangest Ever by Karen Abbott: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-1904-olympic-marathon-may-have-been-the-strangest-ever-14910747/

Story of South Africa's first black Olympians keeps us guessing by Sean Otoole: https://mg.co.za/article/2016-07-07-00-story-of-south-africas-first-black-olympians-keeps-us-guessing/

Early 20th Century Entertainment Comes to Virginia In a Most Unusual Way by Callie Freed: https://uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/blog/2018/10/24/boer-war-spectacle/

Running a marathon was never crazier or harder than during the 1904 St Louis Olympics by Jake Sturmer and Rebecca Armitage: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-26/the-wildest-olympic-event-in-modern-history/12467362