Joan Benoit Samuelson, a two-time Boston Marathon winner and Olympic gold medalist, read to first graders in Cape Elizabeth ...

Race founder and Olympian Joan Benoit Samuelson read to students at Pond Cove Elementary School.

As Joan Benoit Samuelson negotiated the hairpin turn into the Coliseum tunnel, ran past the USC locker room and onto the stadium’s red synthetic track for the final 400 meters of the 1984 Olympic ...

Twenty years ago, Joan Benoit-Samuelson was stranded in a snowstorm at Newark International Airport. “We were coming back from London and the storm got me stuck,” said Samuelson, America’s greatest ...

Joan Samuelson waves to the crowd prior to the start of the 1994 Bix 7. She was given bib No. 361, the number she wore while winning the first Olympic women’s marathon 10 years earlier.

Joan Benoit stepped to the starting line of the first women’s marathon in Olympics history. When she crossed the finish line in 2 hours 24 minutes 52 seconds, the Boston native and world-record holder ...

MOLINE, Ill. (KWQC) - The countdown to the 51st running of the Quad-City Times Bix 7 road race is underway with another pre-race event happening Friday morning. The John Deere Shake Out Run will be at ...

Dugard, a runner and coauthor with Bill O’Reilly of the Killing series, recounts the 1970s marathon boom in this detailed history. He traces the marathon’s origins back to the Greek legend of ...

Joan Benoit Samuelson holds an American flag in celebration after winning gold in the women's marathon at the 1984 L.A. Olympic Games. (Lennox McLendon / Associated Press) As Joan Benoit Samuelson ...