The First Marathon on China's Great Wall
















 

 


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THIS IS THE STORY OF DICK AND JAN MOLEN:
THE FIRST AND ONLY PEOPLE EVER, TO RUN A FULL MARATHON ON TOP OF THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA.



 
"At sunrise yesterday two lonely figures ran on top of the Great Wall, dwarfed by the ancient structure, but feeling equal to it in their accomplishment." - Liu Junqi China Daily
August 5th, 1985




"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt