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At 88, Hakes is still biking 20 to 25 miles, three days a week, and running or swimming, depending on the season, twice a week. He golfs on Thursdays. On Sundays he watches the morning news shows with his wife Lucy, because, you know, you gotta take a break sometimes.

Sport does not sit outside of society. And as a truly global sport, athletics, more than most, is influenced by what is happening in the wider world.

A Phoenix-born writer trains to run the Boston Marathon for her father and her namesake, limps through the event, and reflects on what it all means.

Grete Waitz and Ingrid Kristiansen were destined to become trailblazing standard-bearers of the women’s marathon

  By Eric Wilson-Edge History never really goes away.  The landscape changes and people age but the soul of the experience stays.  You’ve seen it as

Once Olympia was selected as the host city for Olympic Marathon Trials, things started to fall into place.

In the mid-1980s, the world’s most-famous race was spent. Then came the miracles.