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"This is the Panathenaic Stadium, and whatever you're picturing when you hear the word stadium, this isn't it. The ends give it away — those turns are savagely tight, a long thin horseshoe with hairpins at the closed end, nothing like the wide ovals runners use now. Athletes at the first modern Olympics complained about it bitterly."
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The Reveal
This stop is part of the tour’s larger story. An optional reveal at the end lets you revisit which details stayed perfectly honest and which got a little extra help.
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Hear the full story at The Panathenaic Stadium
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