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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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