How St. Louis won the bid to host the 2028 U.S. Olympic marathon trials
About this episode
The episode discusses St. Louis hosting the 2028 U.S. Olympic marathon trials and features insights from local sports leaders and a historian.
St. Louis is set to host the 2028 U.S. Olympic marathon trials, bringing the nation’s top distance runners back to the city that hosted America’s first Olympics. We hear from St. Louis Sports Commission President Marc Schreiber, Go! St. Louis President Mona Vespa and St. Louis Run Club founder Ricky Hughes about the excitement around the marathon trials and what it’ll take to pull it off. We also listen back to a conversation with public historian Adam Kloppe of the Missouri Historical Society about the disastrous 1904 Olympic marathon.
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