This Year, 1.33 Million Runners Entered the London Marathon Ballot. The Commonwealth Games Cut Their Marathon, and Maybe Its Best Shot at a Future.

This post was originally published on Marathon Handbook.

The marathon had been run at every Commonwealth Games since 1930. The plan that could have saved it would have made money, made headlines, and made history, and it died in the Scottish Parliament without anyone debating it, pricing it, or saying no.

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