Thursday's Untold Stories: The Olympic Runner Who Took a Shortcut

🏅 What happens when an Olympic marathon runner decides that running 26 miles is just a little too much work?

Apparently, he catches a ride!

Welcome to the very first episode of Thursday's Untold Stories with Corey Moser, a new weekly storytelling series exploring fascinating, forgotten, and sometimes downright unbelievable moments from history.

In 1904, during the Olympic Games in St. Louis, a runner named Fred Lorz found himself struggling through one of the most grueling marathons in Olympic history.

So he did something that would go down as one of the strangest moments in Olympic history.

He hopped into an automobile, rode for miles, and eventually crossed the finish line ahead of everyone else!

But getting caught was only part of his story. What happened the following year makes this tale even more remarkable.

Join Corey for a little history, a little humor, and one unbelievable true story that proves sometimes the truth really is stranger than fiction.

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