Twenty years ago, Joan Benoit-Samuelson was stranded in a snowstorm at Newark International Airport. “We were coming back from London and the storm got me stuck,” said Samuelson, America’s greatest ...
NEW YORK — Joan Benoit Samuelson wore her trademark white cap and ran with her familiar shuffle to set another record in the New York City Marathon. The 52-year-old Samuelson finished in 2 hours, 49 ...
It’s the first thing most people say when asked for a one-word description of Joan Samuelson. Competitor. For someone so petite, so soft-spoken and so outwardly unimposing, she has the heart of a lion ...