Fill in the Blanks Past simple vs Past PerfectOnline version Complete the next text. by Ma. Guadalupe Torres Pelcastre 1 didn´t made there given had breathed started chased finished he´d won helped ridden ended run felt thought win cheated were The toughest race ever ! There are some difficult events in the Olympic Games , but nothing compares with the 1904 Olympic Marathon . One athlete almos died , and the race in a public scandal . The marathon on an incredibly hot day in St . Louis in the U . S . , and lots of cars and horses on the dusty roads . One athlete , William Garcia , started coughing after in too much dust . It was so bad he had to quit the race and was taken to the hospital . Another runner , Len Tau from South Africa , eventually in ninth place , but he was disappointed because some wild dogs him for over a mile in the opposite direction during the race ! Meanwhile , the first athlete to cross the finish line was an American , Fred Lorz . The crowd a local athlete had , so they started celebrating , but actually , Lorz had . He´d started feeling sick during the race and had 11 miles in a car ! Fortunately , a spectator had seen Lorz getting out of the car one mile before the finish line and told the referee , so Lorz the gold medal . The next runner to finish was another American , Tom Hicks . Hicks hadn´t well either , so his friends had him a drink of eggs mixed with some chemicals to help him . However , this had him feel even worse , and , in the end , his friends had him walk the final part of the race . Even though he hadn´t the whole marathon on his own , the organizers presented Hicks with the gold medal after the hardest marathon of all time .
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