TRACK & FIELD
There is something positively un-American about the Boston Marathon. Sure, it is run on Patriots' Day, which is about as American as a day can get. But a Greek started the whole thing. And Britain's King Edward VII dictated the modern distance in 1908, when that year's Olympic started under his balcony at Windsor Castle which happened to be 26 miles and 385 yards from the finish line. What's more, in Boston, a foreigner almost always wins.
But Americans never stop trying, and Bostonians never stop loving it. In Boston...
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