Approaching the 50th anniversary of his win in the marathon at the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, on Sept 10, 1972, former Gainesville resident Frank Shorter remained sensible about his ...

After 11 Israeli athletes died in a terrorist attack, American runner Frank Shorter was sure the 1972 Olympics were over. Nothing’s worth more than human life, he thought: “We’re going home.” But once ...

Olympian Frank Shorter was working out at the Palmer Ridge High School track the morning of March 24, hours after it was announced that the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics had been postponed due to the ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A familiar face will be back on the Yard of Bricks at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for Saturday's OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini-Marathon. Frank Shorter, who won the gold medal in the ...

Olympian Frank Shorter was working out at the Palmer Ridge High School track the morning of March 24, hours after it was announced that the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics had been postponed due to the ...

GARDNER — Before the state-qualifying cross-country meet last week, the Gardner High boys and girls teams, both aiming for a spot in Saturday’s Division 3 state championship, had a pretty good extra ...

When Frank Shorter graduated from Yale University in spring 1969 with his degree and an NCAA 6-mile title in hand, there was no path to pursuing a post-collegiate running career; no sponsorships, no ...

Shorter won the 1972 Olympic Marathon and helped establish the first anti-doping agency in the U.S. But his public persona hid a dark secret. For Olympian Frank Shorter, Running Was An Escape From A ...

When: Doors open and registration begins at 7:30 a.m. Sunday. Races start at 9 a.m. and wrap up by noon. After a few days of cloudy weather, runners on Sunday will return to the 1stBank Center for the ...

Let’s say you were going to assemble a Mount Rushmore of the most iconic distance runners ever from the United States. You would need to include Bill Rodgers, who won the Boston Marathon and New York ...

Even Frank Shorter, it seems, isn’t completely immune to getting slowed by the whims of time. Slowed, to be clear. Not stopped. Far from it. As the Bolder Boulder celebrates its 40th anniversary on ...