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The American sprinter Wilma Rudolph, gold medallist in the 100m and 200m at the 1960 Olympic Games was the 17th child in family of 18 and was so badly afflicted by polio as an infant that she could not walk properly until she was 11.
The exact distance of the Olympic Marathon is 42.195 kms.
At the first modern Olympic Games in Athens,1896 athletes ran round the track clockwise.