To understand the magnitude of this moment, it helps to know what the mile symbolizes. In 1954, Roger Bannister became the ...

Title IX champion and NCAA swimmer reflects on the law's 53-year legacy, its impact on women's sports, and the current ...

A pioneer in women’s running, Kuscsik first ran Boston in 1969, before women could even officially enter the race ...

Nina Kuscsik, who campaigned for women's inclusion in long-distance running and then won the Boston Marathon the first year that they were officially allowed to enter into the race, has died. She was ...

Nina Kuscsik has died at the age of 86. Kuscsik campaigned for women’s inclusion in long-distance running and won the Boston Marathon the first year that they were officially allowed to enter ...

In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was famously confronted on the Boston course by a race official who grabbed her and tried to tear off her racing bib, only to be body-blocked by Switzer’s boyfriend. Kuscsik ...

In 1967, Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, despite an official trying to physically stop her. Her tips for getting fit include starting slow.

How Kathrine Switzer continues to inspire women to run Switzer and Edith Zuschmann cofounded 261 Fearless, a nonprofit organization named after Switzer’s bib number in the 1967 Boston Marathon.

PHOTO: In this April 19, 1967, file photo, Kathrine Switzer, of Syracuse, N.Y., center, was spotted early in the Boston Marathon by Jock Semple, center right, who tried to rip the number off her ...

An all-women's running group co-founded by Kathrine Switzer, who made history as the first woman to officially finish the Boston Marathon in 1967, is helping women break barriers and proving that ...

Kathrine Switzer, first woman to run Boston Marathon, headlines 'What She's Made Of' event New presidential election polls released in Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina: See results ...