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Podcast: Ultrarunning History
Episode: 125: Ultrarunning Stranger Things Part 13: The Strange and Tragic
Description: By Davy Crockett
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In 1882 it was declared, “The six-day walking matches are the sickest swindles gamblers have yet invented for defrauding a virtuous public.” Well, many of both the public and the running participants were not the most virtuous people on the planet at that time, contributing to the wild strange stories that continually occurred related to the sport of ultrarunning/pedestrianism.
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Also, this opinion expressed in the New York Herald was common, “A six-day walking match is a more brutal exhibition than a prize fight...