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A look at the 1924 Boston Marathon, 100 years since the finish line moved to Hopkinton

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This year’s Boston Marathon marks 100 years since the race was pushed back into Hopkinton and lengthened to its full 26.2-mile distance. Here’s a look at what caused the change and what the race was like a century ago.

A sign in Ashland marking that the town was the original starting point of the Boston Marathon, pictured here in 2006.

Because of that royal request, Olympic marathon standards increased to 26.2 miles. The B.A.A hadn't made the change after the 1908 games, but the 1924 race was the last test for hopefuls trying to make the American marathon team for the Olympics in Paris that year, according to anA sign on the Hopkinton Common marks the town as the Boston Marathon's official starting point.

In perhaps an early version of the "Wellesley scream tunnel," Wellesley College students cheer on marathoners in this photo from the April 20, 1924 Boston Sunday Post.

 

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