体育英语|马拉松并非古时候奥运会的比赛项目

你知不知道，马拉松并非古时候奥运会的比赛项目；古时候奥运会法规中规定，腐败的裁判或对手要受鞭刑；柏拉图曾是奥运会的冠军
The famous marathon race did not exist in the ancient Games. The starting pistol of the first Olympic marathon was fired on 14 April 1896 at 2 p.m.
Famous Greeks attended, or even participated in the ancient Olympic Games: the philosopher Socrates, Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle and even the father of medicine, Hippocrates. The philosopher Plato was a double winner of the pankration.

The 14 articles of the Olympic regulations included an article on corruption^{1: any corruption of a judge or an opponent would be punished by whipping.}

whip v. 鞭打，抽打 marathon n. 马拉松
Socrates, Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle n. （古希腊哲学家）苏格拉底，毕达哥拉斯，柏拉图，亚里士多德