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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Among the field of Boston Marathon runners are a select few that have experienced breaking the tape on Boylston Street. Three past champions—Joan Benoit Samuelson, Amby Burfoot, and Gelindo ...