In 1876 the renowned American long-distance pedestrian Edward Payson Weston travelled to Britain to challenge local sportsmen and to raise his transatlantic sporting profile. In February, wearing his distinctive athletic outfit of knickerbockers, leather leggings and walking boots that ‘reach[ed] above the ankle’, he attempted awalk of115 miles in twenty-fourhours around a track in theRoyal Agricultural Hall in Islington, London. This race is relatively well known in the history of sport, used to demonstrate increasing internationalism, or perhaps increasing professionalization, in sport, both taken as symptoms of modernity. My argument is that Weston’s walk should be allowed to intrude on other histories too: he was part of an international debate about science, and a national debate about the relationship between the state and its citizens, which embroiled chemists, physiologists, physicists, doctors and social reformers for years. This iteration of the debate had been sparked in earnest a little over a decade earlier, in 1865, when two German researchers climbed the Faulhorn, one of a ring of mountains in the Bernese Alps, eating only fried starch paste, drinking only sugary tea and meticulously collecting their urine. Following the path from the Faulhorn to the Royal Agricultural Hall leads us through the first encounters between modern sports

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19 世纪的身体、体育和科学

1876 年，著名的美国长途步行者爱德华·佩森·韦斯顿 (Edward Payson Weston) 前往英国挑战当地运动员并提升他的跨大西洋运动形象。2 月，他穿着由短裤、皮革紧身裤和“高到脚踝”组成的独特运动装，尝试在伦敦伊斯灵顿皇家农业大厅的跑道上 24 小时内步行 115 英里。这场比赛在体育史上相对知名，用于证明体育运动中日益国际化或职业化程度不断提高，两者都被视为现代性的征兆。我的论点是，韦斯顿的举动也应该被允许介入其他历史：他参与了关于科学的国际辩论，以及关于国家与其公民之间关系的全国辩论，多年来，化学家、生理学家、物理学家、医生和社会改革家都卷入其中。这场辩论的反复发生在十多年前的 1865 年，当时两名德国研究人员攀登了 Faulhorn，这是伯尔尼阿尔卑斯山的一环山，只吃油炸淀粉糊，只喝含糖茶和精心收集他们的尿液。沿着从 Faulhorn 到皇家农业大厅的路径带领我们体验现代运动之间的第一次相遇 只喝含糖的茶并精心收集他们的尿液。沿着从 Faulhorn 到皇家农业大厅的路径带领我们体验现代运动之间的第一次相遇 只喝含糖的茶并精心收集他们的尿液。沿着从 Faulhorn 到皇家农业大厅的路径带领我们体验现代运动之间的第一次相遇