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Podcast: The Upshot
Episode: Rat poison cocktails and flogging false starters: marathon madness
Description: For most of us, marathon season is a time to hide in the stationary cupboard while Pauline from accounts shakes the tin for her local donkey sanctuary.  But things were a little different in the old days.They drank rat poison, got chased by wild dogs and flogged false starters.Buckle in for marathon madness…Thomas Hicks carried across finish line: https://images.app.goo.gl/CJxzoyPErKtfxsdv5 Uncle Chen smoking: https://news.sky.com/story/chinese-chain-smoking-marathon-runner-completes-26-miles-in-less-than-three-and-a-half-hours-12748278 Runner shitting on the lawn i...