From charging the field at Beaumont Hamel, to running the Marathon - Eric MacKenzie Robertson was the first born-and-bred Newfoundland Olympian
The world will be watching the thirty-third Olympiad in Paris. There were to be no Newfoundland athletes in the opening ceremonies, but back in 1920, at the seventh Summer Games in Antwerp, Belgium, it was a different story. Newfoundland saw its first-ever native son compete on the Olympic stage. The CBC's Leigh Anne Power brought us the story of marathon runner Eric MacKenzie Robertson.
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