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| Picture No | 10513192 |
| Date | 1908 |
| Description | A girls' marathon in traditional Greek costume? |
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The Sketch suggests that the problem of empty seats that beset the 1908 London Olympics could have been solved by holding a girls' marathon in the becoming Ancient Greek women-runners' costume. The model is Miss Pattie Wells. She looks at a statue of a Spartan girl starting for a race in Ancient Olympia.
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| Source | Photograph by Foulsham and Banfield, the Sketch, 22 July 1908, p.10 (supplement) |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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