Word: phaleron
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...high embanked sides covered with rows of seats and the level part provided with a running track, so that the field sports and general athletic contests will be held in a superb place, capable of seating twenty thousand spectators. The aquatic sports will be held in the roadstead of Phaleron or in the straits of Salamis, while the yacht regatta, which promises to be unusually brilliant, will take place in the Saronic Gulf. The provisional programme comprises: Foot races of various lengths, including a long distance run from Marathon to Athens (48 kilometres), bicycle races, running high and long jumps...