Runners from 147 countries will follow in the footsteps of Olympic athletes tonight as they take part in what the Paris 2024 Olympic Games鈥� organizers have called 鈥淢arathon pour tous,鈥� which translates to Marathon for all.
No, these are not elite athletes, but fans who took up online challenges in the past two years to win a bib, or a spot, in the marathon. They will follow the same hilly and treacherous course as the Olympians, which, to the three Canadians we spoke to -- Kit E and Susan Ibach from Ottawa as well as Sandra Sukstorf from Vancouver -- is a dream come true.
Watch their story in the video at the top of the article.
