We Thought It Might Last Five Years but Today It's As Big As Wimbledon ; John Disley, the Quiet Hero of the London Marathon

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AS John Disley surveys Tower Bridge and watches the stream of London Marathon runners flowing past him today, he will barely be able to believe his eyes.

For Disley's dream, mapped out on the back of an envelope in a Richmond pub with his fellow Olympian and drinking partner, the late Chris Brasher, has become a great British institution.

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We Thought It Might Last Five Years but Today It's As Big As Wimbledon ; John Disley, the Quiet Hero of the London Marathon

'Chris and I thought the London Marathon might have a shelf life of about five years,' said Disley last week. 'I don't suppose we were thinking of posterity.' That was in 1979 when, inspired by what they had seen at the New York...

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