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The marathon race commemorates the run of the soldier

Pheidippides from a battlefield near Marathon, Greece, to Athens

in 490 BC, bringing news of a Greek victory over the Persians.

Pheidippides collapsed and died at the end of his historic run,

thereby setting a precedent for dramatic conclusions to the

marathon.

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