Footage of the first modern Olympic marathon winner’s victory lap was uncovered as part of a seven-year, $33 million project to rescue archived footage from the International Olympic Committee’s basement in Lausanne, Switzerland, according to Agence France-Presse.
A conservation project launched in 2007 dug into some 33,000 hours of video, 500,000 pictures and 2,000 documents, according to the report.
Prized items from the project include footage of Greek shepherd Spyridon Louis‘ victory lap after winning the marathon at the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896 and audio recording of modern Olympic founder Pierre de Coubertin.