This is Diana Nyad for KCRW, and this is The Score. There was a familiar face to New Yorkers around town during the 36th edition of the New York City Marathon last Sunday. The darling of the race's ...

OSLO, NorwayOSLO, Norway — Grete Waitz, the elite Norwegian runner who won nine New York City Marathons and a silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, died Tuesday after a six-year battle with ...

In the city that never stops moving with more running clubs than ever before, runners from all over the world come to the ...

She had already accomplished much when she agreed to act as a pacemaker at the 1978 New York City marathon. Grete Waitz had been a champion cross country skier, a world record-holder at 3,000 meters ...

When Grete Waitz won her first New York marathon in 1978, I was three years out of law school and finishing my first year as a law professor at Temple Law School. Having been unsuccessful at high ...

OSLO, Norway — Grete Waitz, the Norwegian runner who won nine New York City Marathons and the silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, died today after a six-year battle with cancer. She was 57.

NEW YORK (WFAN/AP) — Grete Waitz had never run a marathon before the New York City race in October 1978. After it, her name and New York would be forever linked. The lean Norwegian middle-distance ...

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) - Champion marathon runner Grete Waitz was a constant presence on the first weekend in November in New York City. The Norwegian won the New York ...

After the late running legend Grete Waitz attempted her first marathon in New York in 1978, she found it so grueling that she threw her shoes at her husband, Jack, who was the one who suggested she ...

Norwegian marathoner Grete Waitz has died at age 57. NPR's Mike Pesca joins Michele Norris with this remembrance. Over the course of her career, Waitz enjoyed an especially strong association with the ...

OSLO, Norway - Grete Waitz, the Norwegian runner who won nine New York City Marathons and the silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, died Tuesday after a six-year battle with cancer. She was ...

OSLO, Norway — Grete Waitz, the Norwegian runner who won nine New York City Marathons and the silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, died Tuesday after a six-year battle with cancer. She was ...