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"Nine years after the Boston Athletic Association was founded, six of its members won gold medals in the first modern Olympic Games. While in Athens in 1896, the men from the B.A.A. were so inspired by the majesty of that first Olympic marathon that, not long after returning home, they chose a stretch of road west of the city that mimicked the tough Olympic course and gave birth in 1897 to the Boston Marathon, now the oldest annual marathon in the world.

The B.A.A’s historic ties to the US Olympic Trials are just as deep, and go back almost as far. Between 1908 and 1960, no U.S. Olympic Marathon Team was chosen without relying directly on the results of the B.A.A. Boston Marathon. Indeed, Boston has been used as a selection race – in combination with at least one other race each Olympiad -- for 50 percent of the U.S. Olympic Marathon Teams ever named, and for 12 of 14 teams before a discrete, single-race format was adopted in 1968. (For the first three Olympic Games, teams were not chosen; rather, marathoners competed by their own choice.) Of the U.S. team members selected from the Boston races, six went on to finish in the Top 10 in the Olympics, including a bronze and a gold medallist." - by Barbara Huebner, bostontrials2008.com