American Frank Shorter was the favourite. But the gold went to East German Waldemar Cierpinski. Decades later, doping allegations surfaced. East Germany's Waldemar Cierpinski finds he has a companion ...

Thirty-two years ago, I was lucky enough to witness a bit of Olympic history. Some friends and I scored tickets to a few events at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. And we were just outside ...

In any sport, an athlete almost always knows his closest rival. In the marathon for instance, a runner knows who are the seeded ones. In the 1976 Montreal Olympics, defending marathon champion Frank ...

Of the 74 competitors who started the 1980 Moscow marathon, one was reigning champion Waldemar Cierpinski. Two days before his 30th birthday, the East German bided his time for much of the race and ...

Songs inspired by tales of the ultimate test of endurance, from runners whose names are carved in Olympic marathon legend. Just completing 26.2 miles of running against the world’s best is tough ...

Thomas Hicks was doped in 1904 when he won the Olympic marathon in St. Louis. Hicks, a Cambridge brass worker who'd finished second in Boston that year, swallowed a combination of strychnine (rat ...

His national record in the marathon stood for almost 50 years and there is no doubt that he was world class ...