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- Why does a marathon have to be so long?
  - 30 Jan 2019
  - Wellington Scottish Athletics Club
  - In 1921, the International Amateur Athletic Federation set the marathon distance at 42.195 kilometres. No one really knows why. Originally, the agreed length of the marathon was “a very long ...
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