The Olympic Games, Stockholm, 1912 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Olympic Games, Stockholm, 1912While almost every track event is worthy of a descriptive chapter in itself, there are two which stand out in bold relief, and these are the and 800 meters, the latter being the greater, as it was the means of contributing a new world's rec ord for the half-mile. An extra string had been put at the 880 yard mark, and though the winner hesitated slightly after hitting the finish of the 800 meters, he reached the half mile in I minute 52 1-2 seconds. There in the broad light of day, at a great occasion, among the choicest of the world's competitors, and before the world's keenest experts, all previous marks for the 800 meters and half-mile were blotted out and the new ones substituted were of a caliber simply bordering on the marvelous. The young man to perform the feat was an American and it is still more satisfactory to remember that the second and third were also Americans and that they beat the previous record.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.