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	The famous marathon race did not exist in the ancient Games. The starting pistol of the first Olympic marathon was fired on 14 April 1896 at 2 p.m. Famous Greeks attended, or even participated in the ancient Olympic Games: the philosopher Socrates, Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle and even the father of medicine, Hippocrates. The philosopher Plato (427-347) was a double winner of the pankration. The 14 articles of the Olympic regulations included an article on corruption: any corruption of a judge or an opponent would be punished by whipping. Some women, who were prohibited from attending the Games, did not accept this segregation and dressed up as men, at the risk of being thrown from the mountain of Typaion, as stipulated in the rules. Sometimes the relationship between the athlete and his teacher was somewhat ambiguous, even amorous. This was authorised by the law, which imposed rather vague boundaries. OLYMPIC YEARS Athens 1896 Paris 1900 St. Louis 1904 London 1908 Stockholm 1912 Antwerp 1920 Paris 1924 Amsterdam 1928 Los Angeles 1932 Berlin 1936 London 1948 Helsinki 1952 Melbourne 1956 Rome 1960 Tokyo 1964 Mexico City 1968 Munich 1972 Montreal 1976 Moscow 1980 Los Angeles 1984 Seoul 1988 Barcelona 1992 Atlanta 1996 Sydney 2000 Athens 2004 Beijing 2008 London 2012 Rio de Janeiro 2016