Better Late … |Futility Closet

From the page: "Shizo Kanakuri disappeared while running the marathon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was listed as a missing person in Sweden for 50 years �" until a journalist found him living placidly in southern Japan. Overcome with heat during the race, he had... more

Reviewed by reichil May 09 2009, 03:51am ( 113 reviews ) • futilitycloset.com

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Rated by NorthBeachnik on Oct 22, 10:40pm

Bizarre Olympics story. Guy gets tired and thirsty while running race, steps off track...and "disappears" for decades!
Rated by JakeKlopp on Oct 02, 10:25am

I hope this is true.
Reviewed by zinesterlc on Sep 16, 5:12pm

I think if he was a missing person, the family would have been notified. At which point they would have found their missing person. Interesting story, but that part of it is whack.
Reviewed by Roy-G-Biv on Aug 24, 5:21pm

Great story.
Rated by worddoc on Jun 08, 4:36pm

This is a ridiculously cool story.
Rated by cafeenerush21 on May 29, 3:25pm

nicee

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