马拉松的由来

The marathon is a popular Olympic event.It is a very long race--42.2 kilometers,and good runners finish it in about two hours. Marathon is the name of a place in Greece.There is an old story about an important battle at Marathon 2500 years ago.The Gerrks won the battle and their laeder was very excited.He shouted,"We must send a message to Athens at once.It's a long way to Athens.Who can take our message home to our people?"Pheidippides said,"I can! I want to do it.I can run faster than all the other men!"Pheidippides ran as fast as he could to Athens.He shouted the good news to the Athenians,"we won! We won the battle !"Then he fell to the ground.He was tootired and died.He was the first"marathoner"

马拉松是一项受大众欢迎奥运会项目。它总长42.2千米，好的运动员可以在两个小时左右跑完。马拉松的名字来源于希腊的一个地名。那是一个古老的故事，在2500多年前的马拉松的一场重要战役中，雅典人赢得了战争的胜利，他们的统帅非常高兴，大喊到：“我们必须立刻把消息送达雅典，那是很长的一段路，谁能为我们把消息带给我们的人民？”菲迪皮得斯说：“我能！我愿意去！我跑的比任何人都快！”菲迪皮得斯用尽全力跑到了雅典。他向雅典人民宣布这一消息：“我们赢了！我们战胜了！”接着他就倒下去，他因为过于劳累而死去，他就是第一个“马拉松运动员”。