COME the third Monday of April each year, amateur and professional runners pound the streets of Boston traversing the hilly New England terrain in what must surely be one of the most recognisable sporting events in the world – the Boston Marathon.
Participants come from all over the world, including Malaysia, to take part in an event that started back in 1897, following the success of the first modern-day marathon competition in the 1896 Olympics.
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