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1886 Twenty-four-year-old Welsh cyclist Arthur Linton dies during a race from Bordeaux to Paris; though the cause of death is reported as typhoid fever, he is believed to have taken trimethyl, a stimulant.

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Embarrassment at the Olympics began as early as 1896, at the revival of the modern Olympics in Athens, where swimming competition was held in such frigid waters in the Bay of Zea that some swimmers were too cold to...

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