LONDON (AP) – A silver cup awarded to the winner of the first modern-day Olympic marathon sold for more than 540,000 pounds ($865,000) Wednesday, Christie’s auction house said. Spyros Louis was ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The silver cup given to the marathon winner at the first modern Olympic Games staged in Athens in 1896 sold for 541,250 pounds in London on Wednesday, breaking the auction record ...
The legend of Pheidippides running from Marathon to Athens to announce victory and collapsing may not be entirely accurate. There is evidence suggesting he was an ancient Greek courier who ran 153 ...
LONDON, March 8 (Reuters) - A silver cup awarded to Spyros Louis, the humble Greek runner who won the first Olympic marathon in Athens in 1896, is to be sold by his grandson at an auction in London ...