The real hero of the 1896 Games: Spyridon Louis（通訊員供稿）
[ 2006-10-09 10:41 ]
你知道第一屆現(xiàn)代奧運(yùn)會(huì)中最受歡迎的項(xiàng)目是什么？答案就是起源于希臘的馬拉松比賽。當(dāng)時(shí)的雅典只有十三萬(wàn)五千人，而觀看馬拉松賽竟達(dá)十萬(wàn)人之多，真可說(shuō)是“萬(wàn)人空巷”。當(dāng)身著淺藍(lán)背心的希臘人斯皮里東·魯易斯第一個(gè)沖入運(yùn)動(dòng)場(chǎng)時(shí)，頓時(shí)全場(chǎng)雀躍，歡聲雷動(dòng)。
 At the Athens 1896 Olympic Games, Spyridon Louis set off
from the city of Marathon and took the lead four kilometres from the finish line
and won the race by more than seven minute.
There is no event that the
Greek hosts wanted to win more than the marathon race, because of its historical
significance. Spyridon Louis set off from the city of Marathon and took the lead
four kilometres from the finish line and, to the great joy of the 100,000
spectators, won the race by more than seven minutes.
Born on 12 January
1873 in Maroussi near Athens, Spyridon Louis, a 24-year-old Greek shepherd,
became the real hero of the 1896 Games. There was no event that the Greek hosts
wanted more to win than the 40,000m marathon race, which was created to honor
the legend of Pheidippides, who allegedly carried the news of the Greek victory
at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC by running from Marathon to Athens. On 10
April 1896, Louis, wearing shoes that had been donated by his fellow villagers,
set off from Marathon with sixteen other runners. He took the lead four
kilometres from the Panathenaic Stadium and, to the great joy of the 100,000
spectators in and around the stadium, won the race by more than seven minutes.
Forty years later, Louis recalled the moments after his victory: "That hour was
something unimaginable and it still appears to me in my memory like a dream….
Twigs and flowers were raining down on me. Everybody was calling out my name and
throwing their hats in the air…."
（南開(kāi)大學(xué)通訊員 王樂(lè)迪 孫偉供稿）
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