Boston Athletic Association

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1. Story
2. The club founded in 1887 that has organised the Boston Marathon since 1897 and still does. Its member John Graham managed the American team at the 1896 Athens Olympic Games, saw the marathon there and brought the idea home; the Boston race is therefore a direct and immediate descendant of the first modern Olympic marathon rather than an independent invention. The association is also the body that decides Boston's qualifying standards, the mechanism that makes Boston the only Major most of whose field must earn entry by time rather than by ballot, and the body that had to decide how to run the race in the years after 2013.
3. Knowledge
4. Boston
5. Boston Athletic Association
6. Connections
7. Boston Marathon
8. Boston
9. The first Boston Marathon
10. Boston lengthens its course and moves the start to Hopkinton
11. Women run Boston, unofficially and then officially
12. Boston Marathon
13. Boston Athletic Association
14. The first Boston Marathon
15. Bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line
16. Evidence
17. The Boston Marathon was first run on 19 April 1897 from Ashland over about 24.5 miles, won by John J. McDermott in 2:55:10; the course was lengthened and the start moved to Hopkinton in 1924; Bobbi Gibb ran unofficially in 1966, Kathrine Switzer with a bib in 1967, and women were admitted officially in 1972. V55 verification basis: baa.org was refused by this session's egress proxy; the page was read only through attributed search summaries and contemporary Boston Globe reporting cited within them.