1. Not all ancient footraces were short sprints.

2. It was likened to the reward given the victorious runner after an exhausting footrace.

3. Wrestling, golf, footraces, bowling, cockfighting, pitching quoits (like horseshoes), gouging (no holds barred combat), billiards, and Cudgeling were widespread

4. Atalanta may be Minoan in origin; the first women's sacred footraces are believed to have been held in ancient Crete

5. B2b, a controversial and short lived class in the 1979 Sidecar World Championship; Bay to Breakers, an annual footrace in San Francisco, California on the third Sunday of May; Budapest-Bamako, now the largest amateur rally in the world, the largest rally across the Sahara and an important charity car race in Africa