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The Cuban guy is the second Cuban to ever participate in the Olympics. He got there by raising funds to travel to St.Louis, gambling all of it away (allegedly), and then ran the rest of the way to the race. As he arrived only hours before the race he proceeded to run the entire marathon dehydrated, hungry, and sleep deprived. While also wearing a long sleeve button up shirt, long pants that he cut the legs off of to make shorts, and heavy work boots. And then ate those rotten apples to fill his stomach and kept stopping to talk to fans, which further delayed his runtime. The fact that this man got 4th place seems superhuman given the circumstances. His name is Félix "Andarín" Carvajal. "Andarín" translates to "The Runner" in English. I am commenting this six months after you typed this comment because I fucking love this guy.
@@KarmasAB123they might have been "crab" apples which look almost like normal apples but have a sour taste and give you awful stomach cramps like what was described
For anyone else wondering why they gave their runner strychnine despite knowing that it is toxic even back then: strychnine reduces/stops the natural inhibition of your muscle contractions. Basically it results in spasms, this will eventually lead to asphyxiation but seeing how he finished the race they seem to have successfully walked the line between keeping their man going and killing him. Still I rate 0/10 do not recommend, especially not in combination with brandy.
Oooh thank you so much! I was wondering what the heck the reasoning behind that could have been. Considering the time period, I just chalked it up to basic medical incompetence/insanity and not something that had a logical basis, however dangerous and shortsighted.
It should also be mentioned that it was considered dangerous to give athletes water during sporting events. Seriously. Look up the history of Gatorade to learn more.
@@bigmoniesponge I read that as "The arch is a bit rundown" and yes it is. When I was there, the carpeting at the top had holes in it and even the viewing windows were messy. Side note my friend had a panic attack in the little cat food cans humans ride to get to the top, and I filmed it and put it on TH-cam, because ...that's what we do now.
"being the equivalent of winning a nobel prize" that is quite a stretch "a pulitzer prize" that is more like it. "or my parents approval" the pulitzer would be easier.
@@VungL It’s like the Nobel prize if the Nobel prize had lower standards than my last girlfriend… which, considering she dated me, the standards are pretty low.
Jesus christ, I figured maybe it'd be a mild comedy of errors, but it was just intentionally awful. The level of escalation to this was just amazing. Great video!
Look up the whole affair! With the competition world's fair going on at the same time it made a farce into a deadly sh*tshow. The swimming competitions took place in a man made lake... that was being used by all the livestock to run off their defecation! Several athletes died on the way back during the ocean voyages home from all that stuff getting in them. Pretty much getting the same water good get in a mass flood in their mouths. This was notable for the archery competitions. A woman placed above to win gold medals and it had the oldest man to participate in that sport in Olympic history. I mean, the list goes on forever my dude.
The reason the couch gave him a sponge with distilled water instead of actual water is because the support teams were banned from giving the runners water. In order for water to be handed over, it needed to be handed over by a spectator. This was literally one of the rules that the monster of an organizer set up as part of his experiment.
@@hannibalburgers477 Probably dead inside since he's in university (afaik) Or idk maybe he handles studying better than the average person but still inactive either way
The first ever games which were properly organized were those in Stockholm 1912. And even that event is connected with the notorious "Jim Thorpe-Affair", something the IOC is still ashamed of. But when they corrected it decades later, the poor guy was already dead.
Having watched another video about the 1904 Olympic Marathon, it’s even more of a not surprising plot Twist James Sullivan was also an Organizer for the “anthropology days” at the world fair and was still involved with Olympic affairs outside of the 1904 one.
I've actually read about this in a "Weirdest Fails From Around the World" kind of book from Sweden called "A Thousand Tomfooleries". (It has 964 stories, whoops) I remember it exactly as described here. Fascinating to see animated.
92 degrees with 90% humidity? sounds like Thursday in my home state of Louisiana. which Thursday you ask? *insert Gary Oldman in The Professional screaming EVERYOOOOOONE!!!* MEME here.
Being chased by wild dogs, dodge traffic, forced dehydration... the only way to make this event more survival would be by placing indiana-jones-traps along the track. But then again, that sounds like the ONLY Olympia i would feel inclined to watch.
Felix is a gigachad Like imagine legit going so slow but still ending up 4th out of 14 ppl. Like what :I Not to mention 32 athletes went on the marathon so yeah.
🤣This really sums up my opinion of marathons in general. They aren't races, they are public exhibitions of self-flagellation. The 1904 version just accepted this.
Thank you! I agree, this video is rather old and I’ve done my best to address this issue in future videos. Thanks for pointing it out, I hope the newer videos are better in that regard!
"Eddie, you made sure to give the runners Water right?" "Don't worry Double D! There's literally a well on the track! They'll be fine" "EDDIE THAT'S THE WELL THAT GIVES YOU DISENTARY!"
Love your vids, man. It seems the compression/limiting you used in this vid was a bit heavy handed though. Specially the release time. Some lines, after a transition/threshold was hit, were ducked so far it was hard to hear in the mix. Small thing, but really stuck out to me. Thanks for the great content!
So I may be late to the party but better late than never I guess. Speaking of relay races, you're putting off some heavy Sam O'Nella vibes and I love it, have a sub :)
Félix Carvajal is absolutely the shining hero of this story, and James Sullivan the dastardly villain. I have to say your presentation was... Pretty Good! Kind of wish you'd shown the winning photo for Hicks, though. It's the stuff of nightmares.
Bro, I live in southern Louisiana where the temp regularly gets to 96 with humidity in the 90%-95% on the daily during Summer. That all being said, the heat index is never over 115. Don't wish these things upon us, it's hot enough.
It still sounds better than what we have too day, at lest more entertainment to look at. And you can't claim they didn't push themselves to the breaking point.
How have I missed this channel in the 17 min per week which I gorge upon TH-cam??! Now it's going to be 25 minutes, so 🏆 Or as the Old Vickies would say, "good job!"
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Gotta respect that Cuban mailman, just chit-chatting, fruitnapping, napping his way to fourth. He must have been really fast when he did actually run.
The Cuban guy is the second Cuban to ever participate in the Olympics. He got there by raising funds to travel to St.Louis, gambling all of it away (allegedly), and then ran the rest of the way to the race. As he arrived only hours before the race he proceeded to run the entire marathon dehydrated, hungry, and sleep deprived. While also wearing a long sleeve button up shirt, long pants that he cut the legs off of to make shorts, and heavy work boots. And then ate those rotten apples to fill his stomach and kept stopping to talk to fans, which further delayed his runtime. The fact that this man got 4th place seems superhuman given the circumstances.
His name is Félix "Andarín" Carvajal. "Andarín" translates to "The Runner" in English. I am commenting this six months after you typed this comment because I fucking love this guy.
Whoa
@@hermitcrabguy29 Who the hell doesn't know a ROTTEN apple when they see one?
@@KarmasAB123 Maybe they weren't rotten rotten, like they were just at the start of decay? and maybe his hungry brain just couldn't care.
@@KarmasAB123they might have been "crab" apples which look almost like normal apples but have a sour taste and give you awful stomach cramps like what was described
For anyone else wondering why they gave their runner strychnine despite knowing that it is toxic even back then: strychnine reduces/stops the natural inhibition of your muscle contractions. Basically it results in spasms, this will eventually lead to asphyxiation but seeing how he finished the race they seem to have successfully walked the line between keeping their man going and killing him.
Still I rate 0/10 do not recommend, especially not in combination with brandy.
Lol
Oooh thank you so much! I was wondering what the heck the reasoning behind that could have been. Considering the time period, I just chalked it up to basic medical incompetence/insanity and not something that had a logical basis, however dangerous and shortsighted.
@@AlbinoAxolotl yep
Are you a doctor?
It should also be mentioned that it was considered dangerous to give athletes water during sporting events.
Seriously.
Look up the history of Gatorade to learn more.
This marathon really needs to be a movie. It is such a fun story
It would be too unbelievable haha
Only if it's filmed in Missouri.
@@iron1349 xd
Death is fun.
It would make a great comedy
As a person from St. Louis, I can confirm that the shit talk is justified.
I live in mid Missouri
@@bigmoniesponge I read that as "The arch is a bit rundown" and yes it is. When I was there, the carpeting at the top had holes in it and even the viewing windows were messy. Side note my friend had a panic attack in the little cat food cans humans ride to get to the top, and I filmed it and put it on TH-cam, because ...that's what we do now.
St. Louis also smells like shit, literally smells like shit
Had a building fall on my head in st Louis. Frickin misery.
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"being the equivalent of winning a nobel prize"
that is quite a stretch
"a pulitzer prize"
that is more like it.
"or my parents approval"
the pulitzer would be easier.
Isn't Pulitzer prize somewhat equivalent to Nobel prize for journalism?
@@VungL It’s like the Nobel prize if the Nobel prize had lower standards than my last girlfriend… which, considering she dated me, the standards are pretty low.
Consider, Obama got a Nobel...
@@VungL and only for americans
@@Isometrix116 wow burned yourself just to prove a point.
I like it 😂
Jesus christ, I figured maybe it'd be a mild comedy of errors, but it was just intentionally awful. The level of escalation to this was just amazing. Great video!
It just seems too crazy to be true! And thanks :)
Look up the whole affair! With the competition world's fair going on at the same time it made a farce into a deadly sh*tshow. The swimming competitions took place in a man made lake... that was being used by all the livestock to run off their defecation! Several athletes died on the way back during the ocean voyages home from all that stuff getting in them. Pretty much getting the same water good get in a mass flood in their mouths.
This was notable for the archery competitions. A woman placed above to win gold medals and it had the oldest man to participate in that sport in Olympic history. I mean, the list goes on forever my dude.
@@dragonsword7370 That entire olympic event probably set several world records.
The reason the couch gave him a sponge with distilled water instead of actual water is because the support teams were banned from giving the runners water. In order for water to be handed over, it needed to be handed over by a spectator. This was literally one of the rules that the monster of an organizer set up as part of his experiment.
insane.
This was the first special Ed, Edd and Eddie olympics.
But did anyone get giant jawbreakers?
This is the sequel to the 1st, and only, Ed Edd and Eddie movie.
Fun fact: there’s a shoe store along the path they had to run on
Looks like somebody watched the Jon Boos video
Currently feeding my Sam O’nella addiction now that he’s gone
he dead?
@@hannibalburgers477 Not yet
@@hannibalburgers477 Probably dead inside since he's in university (afaik)
Or idk maybe he handles studying better than the average person but still inactive either way
@@hannibalburgers477 Dead inside given how much his reddit account's been harrassed.
He came back
The first ever games which were properly organized were those in Stockholm 1912. And even that event is connected with the notorious "Jim Thorpe-Affair", something the IOC is still ashamed of. But when they corrected it decades later, the poor guy was already dead.
Excellent work! I felt identified in the part that Felix says "Dame los dados", but only because I speak spanish.
Haha that’s great! Who woulda thought my high school Spanish education would pay off all these years later haha
As a St. Louis resident, I can confirm that we rarely bring the 1904 Olympics up
That cuban was lo key stylin on everyone.
sam O nell has left you need to take his place
Yes please blue jay
who is salmonella
@@gyuuipa5166 sam o'nella academy
he's a youtuber who gives a similar vibe to BlueJay
you should check him out
This could be the plot for a cartoon episode or a movie and no one would question it. It would be really entertaining, too.
“Chased a mile off course by wild dogs” 😂
Seriously, how has a movie not been made about this?!?
@@arthurfisher1857 it would actually make a great comedy
Surprisingly he was one of the few who finished
@@leefletcher7580 In what place?
@@concept5631 Ninth.
Having watched another video about the 1904 Olympic Marathon, it’s even more of a not surprising plot Twist James Sullivan was also an Organizer for the “anthropology days” at the world fair and was still involved with Olympic affairs outside of the 1904 one.
I've actually read about this in a "Weirdest Fails From Around the World" kind of book from Sweden called "A Thousand Tomfooleries". (It has 964 stories, whoops) I remember it exactly as described here. Fascinating to see animated.
The 1904 Olympics: an MK ultra life experience, but also gave us the ice cream waffle cone
I saw you on Reddit earlier. Glad I decided to click the link, really enjoyed the video and the fancy pipe smoking Bluejay.
Thank god there was a Reddit post about this.This is great.
92 degrees with 90% humidity? sounds like Thursday in my home state of Louisiana. which Thursday you ask? *insert Gary Oldman in The Professional screaming EVERYOOOOOONE!!!* MEME here.
Being chased by wild dogs, dodge traffic, forced dehydration... the only way to make this event more survival would be by placing indiana-jones-traps along the track. But then again, that sounds like the ONLY Olympia i would feel inclined to watch.
Alice Roosevelt beating the crap out of someone was actually really in character for her…
Felix is a gigachad Like imagine legit going so slow but still ending up 4th out of 14 ppl. Like what :I Not to mention 32 athletes went on the marathon so yeah.
"The world's best from all walks of life meet to prove their excellence"
Try telling that to Raygun
🤣This really sums up my opinion of marathons in general. They aren't races, they are public exhibitions of self-flagellation. The 1904 version just accepted this.
This was funny and informative. Loved it!
Hey Blue Jay! love your work, just a head up though. I think your sound is too quite. Mostly your vocal parts.
Thank you! I agree, this video is rather old and I’ve done my best to address this issue in future videos. Thanks for pointing it out, I hope the newer videos are better in that regard!
I'm thoroughly glad this channel popped up on my feed. Love this content. I'm still laughing about the trainwreck of the Russian navy expedition XD
Saw you on reddit mate, you deserve my subscribe, cool work!
This is good, very glad TH-cam showed me this channel. Informative, fun, entertaining, what more could you want?
Felix is the main character
The Olympics,
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I love your channel and am watching your old videos!
Sam O'Nella vibes
James Sullivan denied all the runners water because he didn’t want anyone else to become the top scarer
Lately, when I need a good laugh l turn to you, BlueJay. Thank you.
"Eddie, you made sure to give the runners Water right?"
"Don't worry Double D! There's literally a well on the track! They'll be fine"
"EDDIE THAT'S THE WELL THAT GIVES YOU DISENTARY!"
This is an underrated channel
Love your vids, man. It seems the compression/limiting you used in this vid was a bit heavy handed though. Specially the release time. Some lines, after a transition/threshold was hit, were ducked so far it was hard to hear in the mix. Small thing, but really stuck out to me.
Thanks for the great content!
Resembled less of a race and more of an Ed, Edd, and Eddy scheme!
Had me rolling
...what a pathetically idiotic series of events and people. I can't believe how impossibly unprepared everyone involved was
I want to know who came after the mail man.
The sheer disappointment of losing to a guy who took a nap during the race
Dimitrios Veloulis, one of the Greek guys
As a Missourian who lives an hour from St. Louis, 2:02 is very accurate
I strive for accuracy
BlueJay I appreciate that. You can say I live in Misery for the summer
Fun fact, st louis built a power plant Coe 1904 world fair. And its stilled used to this day to power much of downtown
So I may be late to the party but better late than never I guess. Speaking of relay races, you're putting off some heavy Sam O'Nella vibes and I love it, have a sub :)
Blue Jay vids.....THE ULTIMATE FUEL!!!
Félix Carvajal is absolutely the shining hero of this story, and James Sullivan the dastardly villain.
I have to say your presentation was... Pretty Good!
Kind of wish you'd shown the winning photo for Hicks, though. It's the stuff of nightmares.
I loved the analogy of replacing your pc cooler with and arc welding torch. well done. 10/10.
Samonella vibes
San O’Nella academy but actually uploads
I know this isn't your thing, but I'd love to see you cover the Guadalcanal campaign.
Crazy story and a hilarious presentation.
I love this channel!
Thank you blue jay for respecting my love for history. I dare say it's even better than Drunk History. 😂
So, all you need for efficient weight loss is rat poison, raw eggs, and alcohol while running and dehydrated. Sounds pretty good!
Bro, I live in southern Louisiana where the temp regularly gets to 96 with humidity in the 90%-95% on the daily during Summer. That all being said, the heat index is never over 115. Don't wish these things upon us, it's hot enough.
Im thankful TH-cam recommended this channel
This is great
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As a St. Louis citizen, I can vouch the roads are still just as good as it once was
So the 2024 Olympics aren't the worst.. they are the 2nd worst
Moral of the story. If you want to win the Olympic Marathon you need to consume brandy and rat poison.
He lost 8 pounds in a day? God damn!
This is the: "it couldn't get worse could it?" of marathons
Qxir too has a video on this race and it nearly killed me with laughter.
Imagine this Olympic got turned into a West Enderson style dark comedy film.
Anytime people point out how bad this current Olympics is, I point to this one
I love history
Shit, I wouldn't hold the Olympics in St. Louis TODAY, let alone in 1904.
Totally underrated channel! I just subed... Great content Jay!
If you need more on this watch the Jon Bois video on this subject please it's great
Jon Bois
My 2 am tocabell runs? 😂
someone who finally says new orleans properly. how refreshing.
This is the best history channel on TH-cam ever. This channel is how I will raise my kids on about history…. When I have kids….. someday 🙃
TH-cam blessed me with this
It still sounds better than what we have too day, at lest more entertainment to look at. And you can't claim they didn't push themselves to the breaking point.
death getting is creative
Good ol' St. Lois.
Loving your vids man!
I just got an ad for the Winter Olympics.
Stay hydrated
This is a threat
I can’t stop think of your bird as mordiquy
I'm getting ready to run my first Marathon. I will avoid drinking brandy and poison during the race. Thanks for the tip. 👍
Oh, that's where Mr Bean got the idea.
theres a podcast i love called citation needed that did a story on this, its nuts
Blue jay is my new guy!!!
Mans just disrespected my hometown like that 😭😔
0:21 oh F you BlueJay🤣🤣🤣🤣
How the fuck did I never hear about these olympics
...mom's spaghetti
The Olympic marathon would be more interesting if they had used this as the model for all subsequent marathons.
Oh my god I can't stop laughing
The eurocomic 'The Race of the Century' has a Disney-esque retelling of this story. It's not very accurate, but it's pretty funny.
Palms are sweaty knees weak arms are heavy 😭😭😭 love this guy
Reminds me of Sam, glad someone to fill the void
While this is good, Pretty Good, did a 20 min more serious look at this race th-cam.com/video/M4AhABManTw/w-d-xo.html
Jon Bois
How have I missed this channel in the 17 min per week which I gorge upon TH-cam??! Now it's going to be 25 minutes, so 🏆
Or as the Old Vickies would say, "good job!"
The heat is literally just a normal day in the south