Thirty years ago, a 27-year-old Joan Benoit ran through a tunnel into the L.A. Coliseum and won the first women’s Olympic marathon with a time of 2:24:52. “I was living a dream,” says Benoit Samuelson ...
Joan Benoit Samuelson crosses the finish line to win the 1984 Olympic marathon trials in Olympia. Steve Bloom The Olympian Two-time world marathon record holder Jacqueline Hansen had two questions ...