White City Stadium

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1. Story
2. The stadium built at White City in west London for the 1908 Olympic Games, opened on 27 April 1908 with a capacity of about 93,000, and the eastern end of the line that fixed the marathon distance. The final 385 yards of the 1908 course were run inside it, to a finish placed in front of the royal box — that part of the story is not in dispute, and it is the part that produced the odd remainder. The stadium hosted athletics, swimming, boxing, show jumping, later greyhound and speedway racing and a 1966 World Cup match, and was demolished in 1985 for BBC development. The 1908 finish line is marked in the paving outside the building that replaced it, which makes the site the physical anchor of a distance now run on every continent.
3. Knowledge
4. London
5. White City Stadium
6. Connections
7. London
8. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
9. Tea
10. Afternoon tea
11. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
12. Boston Tea Party
13. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
14. First Assam tea auctioned in London
15. London Marathon
16. New York City
17. White City Stadium
18. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
19. The first London Marathon
20. The Great Exhibition
21. Google DeepMind
22. Evidence
23. The 1908 start was on the East Terrace at Windsor Castle rather than beneath a royal nursery window, the royal children were photographed outside on the lawn, and Olympic historians including Bob Wilcox have found no archival support for the nursery-window explanation of the 385 yards. V55 verification basis: read through attributed search summaries of this page and of secondary coverage of Wilcox's research; neither the page nor the underlying study was retrieved.