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- The first NYC Marathon was held in 1970.
- The course of the NYC marathon stretches 26.2 miles,
passing through the streets of NYC's five boroughs: Staten
Island, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Manhattan.
- The NYC marathon involves approximately 40,000 athletes,
12,000 volunteers, thousands of city employees, more than two million
spectators lining the course, and tens of millions more television viewers
around the globe.
- The marathon attracts many world-class professional
athletes, who compete for more than $600,000 in prize money and get
a chance for unprecedented exposure in the media capital of the world.
- The marathon is watched by approximately two million
cheering spectators and 315 million worldwide television viewers.
- The 2012 NYC Marathon was cancelled by Mayor Bloomberg because of the devastation to the region from Hurricane Sandy.
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