Joseph Guillemot: Life After War

French runner Joseph Guillemot was not favoured to win the 5,000-metre race at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. Given his personal history, it was amazing that he was even able to compete. A veteran of World War I, Guillemot had survived a poison gas attack while fighting on the front line only a few years before the Games. His lungs were badly injured, and doctors prescribed an unusual treatment—a long-distance running regime—in an attempt...