The 2024 Maspalomas Olympic Marathon
Marathon # 448
Barefoot Marathon # 154
Maspalomas Dunes Marathon # 28
Date: August 11, 2024
My Time: 5:42:10
By Dr. Barefoot Sidy Diallo
“Testiculos habet et bene pendentes”
History, biology and anthropology not only provide the compelling evidence that barefoot is the authentic way to run a marathon, and nude is the authentic way to participate in Olympic Games, but also help us understand who we are, how and why to run long distances, how to distinguish between a man and a woman, etc.
Accordingly, contrary to all the participants in the 2024 Olympic Marathon in Paris, I authentically ran a marathon—i.e. barefoot—in Playa del Inglés, Gran Canaria, on the day of the 2024 Female Olympic Marathon.
Barefoot is the authentic way to run any marathon, because the human body is designed for barefoot running—successive human species ran barefoot and naked for nearly three million years—and the “first marathoner” Pheidippides was a barefoot runner like all ancient Greek messengers, known as hemerodromes.
Pheidippides ran barefoot in few days hundreds of kilometers in 490 BC before running 40 km from the battlefield of Marathon to Athens to inform the Athenians of their victory over the Persian army, hence the name of the race. The first “modern” marathon was run in Greece in 1896 from Marathon to Athens on the footsteps of Pheidippides.
Like Pheidippides, I also carried a message in Playa del Inglés: as I explain in my book Running Barefoot for Human Survival, long-distance running is not a sport. It’s the ancestral and mandatory profession all individuals of human species, formerly to bring food to the tribe, now to prevent depression, addictions and many chronic diseases.
This means that all current humans—especially those who are either retired or don’t have to do physical activity to bring home the beacon—still need to run long distances to stay fit and happy, but also physically and mentally healthy as we age, instead of relying on medication, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, etc., while wrongly blaming age, poverty or other people for their chronic diseases and the loss of physical or cognitive abilities.
Additionally, running authentically barefoot prevents injuries and makes people smarter. For all these reasons, as a retiree, I did—for instance—mostly barefoot 725 km (450 miles) in July 2024 in Playa del Inglés.
The Resolution of Gender Issues in the Ancient Olympic Games
Ancient Greece—the cradle of the European civilization—is the inspiration not only for the marathon, but also for our Olympic Games.
International Olympic Committee (ICO) President Thomas Bach: “If somebody is presenting us with a scientifically solid system how to identify men and women, we are the first ones to do it.”
Well, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel. I’m therefore happily presenting the ICO President with the “scientifically solid system” that the Greeks successfully applied over 2000 years ago for the ancient Olympic Games: mandatory nudity for all participants in the Games. Mandatory nudity will immediately end the debate on gender, ensure the fairness, equity and transparency of the Olympic Games, and guarantee the safety of female boxers.
Male genitals dangle outside the body, because an internal penis would be useless for an obvious reason, and the testicles of mammals can’t stand the internal body temperature, they need lower temperatures (34 °C for human testicles). And one of the female genitals is also visible outside. So, young kids, or even chimps can tell you if a naked individual of their species is a male or a female.
Those who might object that nudity is unacceptable in Paris or in Los Angeles, should think again, because a) a nude guy notoriously performed in the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, and b) every year tens of nude men and women—paradoxically wearing sneakers—participate in the 12 km Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California. They run naked through the city’s neighborhoods all the way to Ocean Beach. Interestingly, the next Olympic Games will be held in 2028 in the same US State: California.
Moreover, humans, like other mammals are by default nude, which explains why so many people are eager—weather permitting—to take the clothes off where nudity isn’t banned, why there are every day hundreds of nude men and women on the beach section of my Maspalomas Olympic Marathon, and why Playa del Inglés is a prime destination for nudists all year round.
The “sedes stercoraria” option
The Catholic Church introduced a prudish alternative to the Greek solution in the ninth century after the accidental discovery that Pope Joan was a woman, when she unexpectedly gave birth to a child during a procession.
To prevent that from happening again, every newly elected Pope had to sit on a perforated chair—the “sedes stercoraria,” and one cleric would introduce a hand under the seat to perform the check in front of all the cardinals. The announcement of a positive result was: “Testiculos habet et bene pendentes” (he has testicles, and they dangle well).
The practice was reportedly abolished by Pope Adrian VI in the 16th century, but it might be reintroduced for other purposes, for instance for the safety of the women in the ring. So, if the International Olympic Committee is comfortable with nude performers in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, and still not with mandatory nudity for the athletes, the Committee must at least introduce a mandatory “sedes stercoraria” in the Olympic ring for each boxer, and publicly carry the papal test to make sure that a woman never faces a boxer who might be hiding “testiculos bene pendentes.”
My book Running Barefoot for Human Survival is available on Amazon in paperback and e-book format (French edition: Courir pieds nus pour sauver les humains).
Barefoot Marathon # 154
Maspalomas Dunes Marathon # 28
Date: August 11, 2024
My Time: 5:42:10
By Dr. Barefoot Sidy Diallo
“Testiculos habet et bene pendentes”
History, biology and anthropology not only provide the compelling evidence that barefoot is the authentic way to run a marathon, and nude is the authentic way to participate in Olympic Games, but also help us understand who we are, how and why to run long distances, how to distinguish between a man and a woman, etc.
Accordingly, contrary to all the participants in the 2024 Olympic Marathon in Paris, I authentically ran a marathon—i.e. barefoot—in Playa del Inglés, Gran Canaria, on the day of the 2024 Female Olympic Marathon.
Barefoot is the authentic way to run any marathon, because the human body is designed for barefoot running—successive human species ran barefoot and naked for nearly three million years—and the “first marathoner” Pheidippides was a barefoot runner like all ancient Greek messengers, known as hemerodromes.
Pheidippides ran barefoot in few days hundreds of kilometers in 490 BC before running 40 km from the battlefield of Marathon to Athens to inform the Athenians of their victory over the Persian army, hence the name of the race. The first “modern” marathon was run in Greece in 1896 from Marathon to Athens on the footsteps of Pheidippides.
Like Pheidippides, I also carried a message in Playa del Inglés: as I explain in my book Running Barefoot for Human Survival, long-distance running is not a sport. It’s the ancestral and mandatory profession all individuals of human species, formerly to bring food to the tribe, now to prevent depression, addictions and many chronic diseases.
This means that all current humans—especially those who are either retired or don’t have to do physical activity to bring home the beacon—still need to run long distances to stay fit and happy, but also physically and mentally healthy as we age, instead of relying on medication, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, etc., while wrongly blaming age, poverty or other people for their chronic diseases and the loss of physical or cognitive abilities.
Additionally, running authentically barefoot prevents injuries and makes people smarter. For all these reasons, as a retiree, I did—for instance—mostly barefoot 725 km (450 miles) in July 2024 in Playa del Inglés.
The Resolution of Gender Issues in the Ancient Olympic Games
Ancient Greece—the cradle of the European civilization—is the inspiration not only for the marathon, but also for our Olympic Games.
International Olympic Committee (ICO) President Thomas Bach: “If somebody is presenting us with a scientifically solid system how to identify men and women, we are the first ones to do it.”
Well, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel. I’m therefore happily presenting the ICO President with the “scientifically solid system” that the Greeks successfully applied over 2000 years ago for the ancient Olympic Games: mandatory nudity for all participants in the Games. Mandatory nudity will immediately end the debate on gender, ensure the fairness, equity and transparency of the Olympic Games, and guarantee the safety of female boxers.
Male genitals dangle outside the body, because an internal penis would be useless for an obvious reason, and the testicles of mammals can’t stand the internal body temperature, they need lower temperatures (34 °C for human testicles). And one of the female genitals is also visible outside. So, young kids, or even chimps can tell you if a naked individual of their species is a male or a female.
Those who might object that nudity is unacceptable in Paris or in Los Angeles, should think again, because a) a nude guy notoriously performed in the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, and b) every year tens of nude men and women—paradoxically wearing sneakers—participate in the 12 km Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California. They run naked through the city’s neighborhoods all the way to Ocean Beach. Interestingly, the next Olympic Games will be held in 2028 in the same US State: California.
Moreover, humans, like other mammals are by default nude, which explains why so many people are eager—weather permitting—to take the clothes off where nudity isn’t banned, why there are every day hundreds of nude men and women on the beach section of my Maspalomas Olympic Marathon, and why Playa del Inglés is a prime destination for nudists all year round.
The “sedes stercoraria” option
The Catholic Church introduced a prudish alternative to the Greek solution in the ninth century after the accidental discovery that Pope Joan was a woman, when she unexpectedly gave birth to a child during a procession.
To prevent that from happening again, every newly elected Pope had to sit on a perforated chair—the “sedes stercoraria,” and one cleric would introduce a hand under the seat to perform the check in front of all the cardinals. The announcement of a positive result was: “Testiculos habet et bene pendentes” (he has testicles, and they dangle well).
The practice was reportedly abolished by Pope Adrian VI in the 16th century, but it might be reintroduced for other purposes, for instance for the safety of the women in the ring. So, if the International Olympic Committee is comfortable with nude performers in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, and still not with mandatory nudity for the athletes, the Committee must at least introduce a mandatory “sedes stercoraria” in the Olympic ring for each boxer, and publicly carry the papal test to make sure that a woman never faces a boxer who might be hiding “testiculos bene pendentes.”
My book Running Barefoot for Human Survival is available on Amazon in paperback and e-book format (French edition: Courir pieds nus pour sauver les humains).
The Collector: Panthenaic amphora, Unknown, 480-470 BCE, via Leuven University
Dr. Sidy Diallo's 2024 Maspalomas Olympic Marathon: He ran like Pheidippides i.e. barefoot, but not nude.
Dr. Sidy Diallo's 2024 Maspalomas Olympic Marathon Course and Time
Dr. Sidy Diallo did 725 km in July 2024 in Playa del Inglès, Gran Canaria.
SFGATE: Nude runners descend on San Francisco’s Bay to Breakers
Running Barefoot for Human Survival, by Dr. Sidy Diallo
Below is Dr. Barefoot Sidy Diallo’s interactive global marathons map. It features most of the marathons (orange icons) and ultramarathons (blue icons) Dr. Diallo did on the seven continents. Zoom in to discover all the races, as many icons are overlapping.
Dr. Barefoot Sidy Diallo’s interactive global marathons map
Web articles for more information
The Collector: The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
SFGATE: Nude runners descend on San Francisco’s Bay to Breakers
The Collector: The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude
SFGATE: Nude runners descend on San Francisco’s Bay to Breakers