kanakuri in A Sentence

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    Beyond the weather being less than ideal, Kanakuri chose to run in traditional Japanese cloth shoes called tabi.

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    In any event, the lack of drinking combined with the heat saw Kanakuri pass out from heatstroke around the halfway mark.

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    As for Kanakuri, ashamed that he had been forced to withdraw, he never told race officials he would dropped out and instead simply went home.

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    Kanakuri sheepishly responded that it was simply an old customs form he had lying around he put in the box because it looked kind of important.

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    While the two were chatting, the son asked Kanakuri what was in the box he would sent his father as nobody in his family could read Japanese.

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    Unfortunately, when Japan's Olympic duo arrived in Sweden, one of the men fell ill, although it's not clear from surviving records whether it was Kanakuri or Mishima.

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    Five years later, in 1967, Kanakuri's name came up among a group of businessmen who were helping raise funds to send Swedish athletes to the 1968 Olympics in Mexico.

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    In 1962, a Swedish journalist learned that Kanakuri was very much alive, much to the surprise of the Swedish National Olympic Committee who made a note of it in their records.

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    They then hatched a novel idea- why not have Kanakuri“finish” the marathon in front of the world's media as a way to score some free publicity and attract sponsors to their cause?

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    After about an hour of recovering, Kanakuri decided to forfeit the race and caught a train to Stockholm where he stayed in a hotel until his boat back to Japan arrived.

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    Thus, aware that many of the racers had passed out and one ultimately died, they worried that Kanakuri could be in danger and so reported that he was missing to the Swedish police who fruitlessly searched for him.

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    Worried Kankuri wouldn't visit if he knew what was going on; he was invited to Sweden under the pretense of celebrating the 55th anniversary of the 1912 Olympic games- a curious request, but Kanakuri happily obliged regardless.

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    Worried Kankuri wouldn't visit if he knew what was going on, he was invited to Sweden under the pretence of celebrating the 55th anniversary of the 1912 Olympic games- a curious request, but Kanakuri happily obliged regardless.

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    Shizo Kanakuri is an apparent exception to that rule because he's fondly remembered for having the worst official time of any Olympic marathon runner in history, taking over 54 years to finish a race he started in 1912.

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    Upon getting back to Japan, as thanks for allowing him to recover in their villa, Kanakuri sent the banker a mysterious box with a scroll inside covered in Japanese writing that became a treasured memento of the occasion for the family.

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    Weirdly, Kanakuri remained an official missing person in Sweden for about 5 decades, even though he competed in the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp and the 1924 Olympics in Paris(he was also set to run in the 1916 Olympics, but WW1 got in the way).

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    Now Kanakuri's choice to drop out of the race, in of itself, wasn't unusual because over half of the 69 runners competing in the marathon that day ended up not finishing it because of the heat, with many similarly passing out like Kanakuri did.

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    Upon Swedish Olympic Committee representatives reading out his official finish time to the gathered press- 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds- Kanakuri was asked if he would like to say a few words about breaking a world record for slowest marathon ever run.

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    Despite this initial setback, Kanakuri became a key figure in the history of long-distance running in Japan, establishing the Tokyo-Hakone Round-Trip College Ekiden Race, a relay race for university students that helped foster a longstanding love of the sport in the country and something that led to him being crowned“the father of Japanese marathon”.

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    It was only when Kanakuri arrived in Sweden that officials informed him of the ruse and the extent of the legend he would inspired by disappearing all those years ago(some tongue in cheek versions went as far to posit that Kanakuri was still running 50 years later because he would missed the first checkpoint).

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