Overcome with heat during the race, he had stopped at a garden party to drink orange juice, stayed for an hour, then took a train to a hotel and sailed home the next day, too ashamed to tell anyone he was leaving.

Better Late - Shizo Kanakuri disappeared while running the marathon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

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