TRAILING IN THE OLYMPIC SHADOWS
Trail running is there, lurking in the shadows of the Olympic flame’s glare – but it has not quite hit the limelight, yet.
It may be news to some, but trail running, in the form of cross country running, has been in the Olympics three times to date.
The sport made its debut in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm with 45 runners; was contested again at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp with 47 men; and at the Paris Games in 1924 as a team event.
During the Paris race, 23 of the 38 starters dropped out because of “extreme heat and poisonous fumes from a nearby plant,” as reported by a story on.
