[Public Domain Review] Conan Doyle's Olympic Crusade

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CONAN DOYLE'S OLYMPIC CRUSADE

**When an exhausted Dorando Pietri was helped across the finishing line 
in the 1908 Olympics marathon, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of 
Sherlock Holmes, was there to write about it for the Daily Mail. Peter 
Lovesey explores how the drama and excitement of this event led Conan 
Doyle to become intimately involved with the development of the modern 
Olympics as we know it.**
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/08/09/conan-doyles-olympic-crusade/>

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