This short documentary revisits the 1976 Olympic Marathon A modernday addition to the Games the marathon commemorates the soldier who ran crosscountry in 490 BC to announce the Greek victory at Marathon and then died Here great film footage of the 1976 Summer Olympics captures the physical demands of the race while its emotional counterpart is related by Waldemar Cierpinski the events 1976 gold medalist This emotioncharged film proves that although the winner of the Decathlon is the best allround athlete the toughest is the winner of the Marathon
