The 1904 Olympic Games were considered to be the darkest games in history. A mad scientist was able to run experiments on athletes while the games went on, runners were given poison to enhance their performance, and people were stolen from all over the world and forced to compete.
TW: Suicide, Racism
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Human Experiments, Trafficked Athletes, and Poisoned Runners: America's First Olympics // Dark Summer Series — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries)
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