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 ...

On Sunday, the Napa Valley Marathon marked its 40th year in the wine country, a span of time stretching back almost to the debut of a pioneering women’s champion – and the Napa race’s guest of honor ...

Sure, Joan Benoit Samuelson has run a lot of marathons. In fact, at 54, she's still running enough to go through a couple of pairs of shoes every month and a half. But what makes her famous — and what ...

Olympians Joan Benoit Samuelson and Anita DeFrantz had their respective plaques unveiled at a ceremony at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during the morning of June 20. Benoit and DeFrantz are the ...

NEW YORK — Joan Benoit Samuelson wore her trademark white cap and ran with her familiar shuffle to set another record in the New York City Marathon. The 52-year-old Samuelson finished in 2 hours, 49 ...

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 ...