Ahead of Rio, barefoot runners re-enact ancient games

Barefoot TJ

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Awesome story. I spent some time in Greece and got to run on some of the old tracks. In particular the track at Delphi was amazing - a long wide open stretch of dirt surrounded by incredible stone work.

Richard Mandell's First Modern Olympics is a pretty incredible account of the history of the modern olympics. They used to be a lot different than the corporate doped up athlete parade today.
 
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Maybe it should be made an Olympic sport rather golf or some of those other bizarre so called sports.
Of course it would be resisted by every sport shoe and clothing company on the planet.
They would rather have Olympic Tea Brewing in the games than people competing without footwear.

Neil
It would be SO COOL to have barefoot Olympic sports!
 
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