Races may also be held with a mass start, as is done in marathon ice speed skating, marathon skating, tour skating, short track skating or in most roller skating events.

According to the International Triathlon Union, and USA Triathlon, the main international race distances are Sprint Distance, which has a swim, cycling, run ; Intermediate ( or Standard ) distance, commonly referred to as " Olympic distance " ( swim, bike, run ; the Long Course ( swim, ride, run, such as the Half Ironman ), and Ultra Distance ( swim, ride, and a full marathon: run ); the most recognized branded Ultra Distance is the Ironman triathlon.

* July 24 – Dorando Pietri wins the Olympic marathon in London in one of the most dramatic arrivals of the Olympic history, only to be disqualified soon afterwards.

Road racing events can be of virtually any distance, but the most common and well known are the marathon, half marathon, 10 km and 5 km.

The World Marathon Majors series includes the five most prestigious marathon competitions at the elite level – the Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, and New York City marathons.

Nonetheless production on the film was plagued by blown-out budgets and producer-director squabbles, resulting in a marathon eight-month shoot and, at US $ 103 million, the most expensive film Scorsese had ever made.

The Ottawa Citizen described the national response to his marathon as " one of the most powerful outpourings of emotion and generosity in Canada's history ".

The most famous incident of the games came at the end of the marathon.

The marathon was the most bizarre event of the Games.

The AP also indicated that the attempt to have the mark certified as a world record " would force the governing bodies to reject an unprecedented performance on the world's most prestigious marathon course ".

In the United States the most popular inline marathon has continued to be the NorthShore Inline Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota.

It is at this point in the race when many runners begin to tire, as the climb up the bridge is considered one of the most difficult points in the marathon.

Self-proclaimed as " the world's most beautiful marathon ", the race is run against a backdrop of spectacular scenery through the Cape Peninsula.

He held the world record in the marathon from 2003 to 2007, with a time of 2: 04: 55, and is regarded as one of the most accomplished long-distance runners of all time.

The first marathon at the 1896 Games of the I Olympiad generated interest in the sport which led to similar races throughout most western countries and across the United States.

Ken McArthur ( Kennedy Kane McArthur ; February 10, 1881 – June 13, 1960 ) is most noted as a track and field athlete and winner of the marathon at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

During a viewers ' choice marathon on October 7, 2007, " Scarecrow " was voted most popular episode.

The prestigious Jockey Club Gold Cup was usually run there between 1958 and 1974, and what was perhaps the track's most distinctive race, the marathon Display Handicap, was last contested in 1990.

Delfo Cabrera Gómez ( April 2, 1919 – August 2, 1981 ) was an Argentine athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1948 Summer Olympics in one of the most dramatic finishes in athletics history.

Etienne Gailly from Belgium dominated the marathon race most of the way and until almost the very last moments.

Cable and satellite channels, most of which cater to smaller niche audiences, generally use much simpler programming strategies: infomercials in the morning, reruns ( often in block or marathon format ) in the daytime, and feature programming in prime time, replayed in late night.

At the end of this five month poker marathon, down an estimated $ 2-4 million dollars, Dandolos uttered what has become one of the most famous poker quotes ever: " Mr. Moss, I have to let you go.

Unlike most other marathons, but like all races in France, the Paris Marathon requires a doctor's note affirming the runner is physically fit to run a marathon.

The natural world then, plus poetry and some kinds of art, receives from the most ordinary of Persians a great deal of attention.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

Perhaps the most powerful and most frequently recurring literary influence on the Western world has been that of the Old and New Testament.

After declaring, in an article last month in Frontier Magazine, that the Russian testing `` carries with it the possibility of the most tragic consequences of any action in the history of the world '', he gave this estimate of the biologic and genetic consequences if the new Soviet shots totaled 200 megatons:

most modern adapters totally accept the world of a book, squeeze it dry of life, and add only one contribution of their own: stage technique.

But he painted some of the boldest and most original pictures of his time, and even after nearly half a century, the tense, tormented world he put on canvas has lost none of its fascination.

but if he is up against China's crusading spirit in world affairs, he is going to be faced with the most agonizing choice in his life.

Drunk or sober she was the most attractive woman in the world for me.

Nothing in all the preceding years had had the power to bring me closer to a knowledge of profound sorrow than the breakup of camp, the packing away of my camp uniforms, the severing of ties with the six or ten people I had grown most to love in the world.

With world peace constantly being threatened, most of us regard the future skeptically, and even with fear.

And this is meeting the world's need, too, since what the world most needs from this country is better understanding of the world.

Built upon seven hills, Istanbul, like Rome, is one of the most ancient cities in the world, filled with splendor and contrast.

Don't think you have to start with the most expensive equipment in the world.

As several recent books have over-emphasized, we have become the most status-conscious nation in the world.

Religion provides the most attractive rewards, either in this world or the next, for those who not merely abide by its norms, but who engage in good works.

If adjectival meanings show relatively low retentiveness of stems, as I am confident will prove to be the case in most languages of the world, why should our basic lists include 15 per cent of these unstable forms, but only 8 per cent of animals and plants which replace much more slowly??

We expected, in short, that most of the world would make itself over in our image and that it would be relatively simple, from such a position, to deal with the localized aberrations of the Soviet Union ''.

But there was no pressing need to maintain these same standards with regard to most of the rest of the world.

The vast Central Valley of California is one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world.

In the vases this spirit may perhaps at times bore or repel one in its internal self-satisfaction, but the best of the Geometric pins have rightly been considered among the most beautiful ever made in the Greek world.

The most important aims of the Jewish students were as follows: to make the world a better place to live in -- 30 per cent ; ;

) is for the most part a recondite affair, for manifestly, if everyone in the world who could afford the best wines also liked them, the supply would dry up in no time at all.