The longest Olympic marathon finishing time is fifty-four years, eight months, six days, thirty-two minutes and 20.3 seconds. The Japanese runner Shizo Kanakuri fell asleep after taking a break close to his nineteenth mile during the 1912 Stockholm games, then woke up the next day. He was invited back to complete it in 1976 when he was sixty-seven.
(Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/qi/9472902/QI-Quite-interesting-facts-about-the-Olympics.html.)
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Friday, 24 August 2012
Thursday, 23 August 2012
No. 254.
Princess Anne was the only person not be gender-tested at the 1976 Olympics.
(Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/qi/9472902/QI-Quite-interesting-facts-about-the-Olympics.html.)
(Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/qi/9472902/QI-Quite-interesting-facts-about-the-Olympics.html.)
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
No. 144.
Muhammad Ali was rumoured to have dedicated his Rumble in the Jungle victory to Christopher Lee.
(Source: Told by friend. Also noted here: http://commanderbond.net/2440/you-want-to-put-bond-in-a-gorilla-suit.html.)
(Source: Told by friend. Also noted here: http://commanderbond.net/2440/you-want-to-put-bond-in-a-gorilla-suit.html.)
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