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It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

1908 Of the final moments of the 1908 Olympic marathon, in which the Italian runner Dorando Pietri had to be helped over the finishing line and was thus disqualified. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.