All posts tagged "Olympics"
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4.4K3Massachusetts8 Things You Didn’t Know About New England Olympians
Ever since a Bostonian won the first event in the first modern Olympics, New England has sent more than its share of...
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7.8K7Arts and LeisureJohnny Kelley, Beloved Icon of the Boston Marathon
The day after Johnny Kelley won his first Boston Marathon in 1935, he showed up at 7:30 a.m. at his job in...
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6.4K2Arts and LeisureClarence DeMar Upends Medical Science, Proves Running Isn’t Bad for the Heart
Clarence DeMar survived a Dickensian childhood and bad medical advice to win the Boston Marathon seven times, despite taking two long breaks...
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4.1KArts and LeisureFlashback Photo: Aileen Riggin, Tiny Swimmer Who Made a Big Splash
Aileen Riggin, a Newport, R.I., native, spent a life of watery triumph. She became an Olympic gold-medal winner at the age of...
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10.8K4Arts and LeisureU.S. Figure Skating: From a Flooded Field in Cambridge to the Olympic Games
Figure skating in America owes much to the flooding of a field belonging to a daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the...
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6.9K7Arts and LeisureTenley Albright, From Polio in Massachusetts to Olympic Gold in Italy
Two weeks before the 1956 Winter Olympics began in Cortina, Italy, Tenley Albright slipped on a bump in the ice and slashed her...
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