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 ...
Joan Benoit stepped to the starting line of the first women’s marathon in Olympics history. When she crossed the finish line in 2 hours 24 minutes 52 seconds, the Boston native and world-record holder ...