Running is alone among sports in so often carrying meanings greater than itself. Worldwide examples spanning more than a century demonstrate races symbolizing recovery:
- The first marathon was included in the 1896 Olympic Games to connect the festival with ancient history and as a symbol of Greece's emergence from centuries of oppression.
- San Francisco's Bay to Breakers race was established in 1912 to help the battered city regain its morale after the 1906 earthquake.
- South Africa's Comrades' Marathon (56 miles/89 kilometers) began in 1921 as an active tribute by World War I veterans to their many comrades who had fallen.
- In 1924 the Czechoslovak town of Kosice (now in Slovakia) founded the International Peace Marathon to symbolize Europe's emergence from the nightmare of World War I.
- The 1948 Olympic Games in London fulfilled the same purpose, asserting Britain's survival and the world's transition from war to peace. Click here for more of Marathons of Memory
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