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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...