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 ...

LOS ANGELES — 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 ...

It’s the first thing most people say when asked for a one-word description of Joan Samuelson. Competitor. For someone so petite, so soft-spoken and so outwardly unimposing, she has the heart of a lion ...

You might think that now that her competitive running days are behind her, life might be slowing down for Joan Benoit Samuelson. Think again. Samuelson is still busy operating the Beach to Beacon 10K ...

LOS ANGELES, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Joan Benoit Samuelson, the first women's Olympic marathon champion, hopes the return of the Summer Games to Los Angeles in 2028 will propel a new generation of American ...

THE afternoon before the 31st running of the Quad-City Times Bix 7, this past July, Olympic gold medalist and honorary native daughter Joan Benoit Samuelson stood on the top of the home team’s dugout ...

Joan Samuelson remembers the day very well, much better than Bill Rodgers does. She was a 19-year-old college sophomore, a field hockey player and aspiring distance runner at Bowdoin College, and she ...

Joan Benoit-Samuelson, the 1984 Olympic Marathon Champion, joined fans in Eugene to run in celebration of the 40 year anniversary of Title IX.

Accounts of Joan Benoit Samuelson's Olympic glory are faded, yellow newspaper clippings. But the runner has not faded. When she toes the starting line in Proctor today at 8 a.m. she will be less than ...

FARMINGTON — University of Maine graduates got an emotional sendoff during Saturday’s commencement from their senior class speaker and Joan Benoit Samuelson, a hero and role model for women everywhere ...