Anderson Cooper earns an annual salary of $11 million from CNN. Cooper is currently the host of CNN's news show Anderson Cooper 360. Cooper is the son of heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, and the great-great-great-grandson of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt.
The marathon is a modern event that was first introduced in the Modern Olympic Games of 1896 in Athens, a race from Marathon northeast of Athens to the Olympic Stadium, a distance of 40 kilometers.he distance of the modern marathon was standardized as 26 miles 385 yards or 42.195 km. in 1908 when the Olympic Games were held in London. The distance was the exact measurement between Windsor Castle, the start of the race, and the finish line inside White City Stadium.
About 37,500 amateur athletes, fun runners and elite sportsmen and women have run the Virgin London Marathon. Kenya's Wilson Kipsang won the men's elite race with a time of 2:04:44 and Mary Keitany, also from Kenya, defended her title with a time of 2:18:37.laire Lomas began Sunday's marathon as the first person in the UK to wear a Rewalk suit. She suffered spinal injuries in a horse riding accident and is expected to take three weeks to complete the route. Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls ran his first London Marathon and finished in a time of five hours and 31 minutes.