Five days after the worst attack on New York since September 11, 2001, the city staged a show of defiance Sunday, with some 2.5 million people packing the streets to cheer on 50,000 marathon participants from around the world.
In a befitting finish, Shalane Flanagan, 36, became the first American in 40 years to win the women's title, overcoming aRead more
Shalane Flanagan, a Boulder, Colorado-born and Massachusetts-raised distance runner, became the first American woman to win the New York City Marathon since 1977, when she clipped the finish line tape Sunday at 2:26:53. The 24-year-old Kenyan Geoffrey Kamworor, meanwhile, won his first New York City Marathon, finishing first in the men's race with a time of 2:10:53, three secondsRead more
US distance runner Shalane Flanagan was celebrating on Monday after finally being awarded her silver medal from the 2008 Olympic Games 10,000 meters following a doping ban against Turkish second-place finisher Elvan Abeylegesse.
The United States Olympic Committee confirmed that Flanagan had been upgraded to silver after a retest of a sample belonging to Ethiopian-born runner Abeylegesse from the 2007Read more