Sports and Leisure: Meaning a 26-mile running race, "marathon" is a word that originated in which language?

Originating from the Greek word for fennel, the term marathon actually comes from the journey taken by Pheidippides, the Greek messenger, from the battlefields of Marathon to Athens in 490 BCE. According to popular legend, he ran without stopping the entire route, which prompted the idea of modern marathons.

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