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 ...

When Joan Benoit Samuelson was born, in 1957, the longest race that women were allowed to compete in at any international sporting event was 800 meters—well under a mile—according to the international ...

During the Women's Olympic Marathon Trials in Boston last April, the roadside crowds cheered loudest for her, the local girl who conquered the world. Some of her competitors hadn't been born the year ...

The skin on Joan Benoit Samuelson's face isn't as taut as it was in 1984, back when she became a pioneer in track and field by winning the first women's Olympic marathon in Los Angeles. Smile lines ...