[4] Richard D. Mandell, in his book The First Modern Olympics, wrote: "Neither had eaten and had only sipped liquid.

They were squalid from excreta and delirious from fatigue... their legs swollen gruesomely... both could be heard weeping."

Rain and wind meant there were few spectators and those that were there lost interest because the race was "a monotonous sight.

"[4] After returning home to Hampshire, he opened a cycle shop in Milford on Sea, and later garages in New Milton and Lymington.

[6] His son was Michael Keeping, who played football for Southampton and Fulham and became manager of Real Madrid in Spain.