六年级英语作文 写一写你做过的一项运动60单词

您好：The marathon was NOT an event of the ancient Olympic games. The
marathon is a modern event that was first introduced in the Modern
Olympic Games of 1896 in Athens, a race from Marathon northeast of
Athens to the Olympic Stadium, a distance of 40 kilometers.
The race
commemorates the run of Pheidippides, an ancient "day-runner" who
carried the news of the Persian landing at Marathon of 490 B.C. to
Sparta (a distance of 149 miles) in order to enlist help for the battle.
According to the fifth century B.C.ancient Greek historian Herodotus,
Pheidippides delivered the news to the Spartans the next day.
The
distance of the modern marathon was standardized as 26 miles 385 yards
or 42.195 km. in 1908 when the Olympic Games were held in London. The
distance was the exact measurement between Windsor Castle, the start of
the race, and the finish line inside White City Stadium.