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30 Years Ago Olympia Played Host to Running History

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

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Olympia s Road to 1984 Olympic Glory

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

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The forgotten story of how the Boston Marathon almost collapsed

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

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The history behind the Wheelchair Division of the Boston Marathon

Back in 1993, Chronicle interviewed competitor Bob Nichol on the night before his first marathon.

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1-mile stretch of the Boston Marathon route foreshadows champions

Ted Reinstein spoke to runner and race director Dave McGillivray about the stretch from Newton to Brookline in 2003.

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