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Retired NASCAR driver Matt Kenseth had an incredible Boston Marathon time — one that beat Jimmie Johnson's.

Boston (AFP) - Kenya's Evans Chebet held off two past champions to win the men's crown and reigning Olympic champion compatriot Peres Jepchirchir captured the women's title on Monday at the 126th Boston Marathon.

Sharing a weekend with the Red Sox home opener — the city’s other sporting rite of spring — more than 28,000 runners returned to the streets from Hopkinton to Copley Square six months after a smaller and socially distanced event that was the only fall race in its 126-year history.

BOSTON – With security that would match a presidential inauguration in place, the Massachusetts State Police reported no credible threats against runners or spectators during today’s Boston Marathon.

Runners are gearing up for the Boston Marathon, marking the return of the prestigious race to its springtime spot for the first time since the pandemic began

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WEST HARTFORD - — These days, Meb Keflezighi is a soccer dad. He can eat ice cream five days before the Boston Marathon.

Whether standing at the starting line for a high school cross-country competition or, years later, at the cold rainy 2018 Boston Marathon, I have always been nervous before races.

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is again trying to avoid execution, asking the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to consider four constitutional claims not taken up when his death sentence appeal went to the Supreme Court last month

The world isn't made a better place by treating individual athletes as appendages of their governments.

The decision comes less than two weeks until the race.