How a Minnesota runner set a U.S. record by finishing 7 major marathons
A Minnesota marathoner is running her way into the record book. Mike Max explains why she's now working toward another finish line.
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A Minnesota marathoner is running her way into the record book. Mike Max explains why she's now working toward another finish line.
Moses Cooper, who has cerebral palsy, met running partner Mark Hulsey through My Team Triumph Minnesota two years ago and the pair qualified for the Boston Marathon at Grandma's Marathon last summer.
Inspired by the superhero “Flash,” Moses Cooper and his running partner will take on the Boston Marathon on Monday.
A special road race around Lake Phelan in St. Paul, Minnesota gave runners of all abilities the chance to compete.
Jeff Birkel got hooked on running in his 30s, but after getting diagnosed with ALS, things changed. Soon, his sons had an idea to get their dad qualified as a handicapped athlete in the Boston Marathon.
In just a few weeks, top distance runners from around the world will assemble for the Boston Marathon. A Crystal, Minnesota, man is training for the race and he'll be working hard but, as you'll see, he's not just pushing himself.
Buzunesh Deba, who lives in the Bronx, became the default winner of the 2014 Boston Marathon in 2016 when the first-place winner was disqualified for doping, but she says she has not yet received her prize money.
A Minnesota native is making history. Emma Bates came in 5th place among women in the Boston Marathon. Beret Leone spoke with her about her fast finish.
One of Minnesota's own is making history after a record run in Monday's Boston Marathon.
A native Minnesotan logged the second-fastest finish in history for an American woman at the Boston Marathon on Monday.
Paul Norden and Jacqui Webb were among the thousands watching the marathon and were right near the second bomb when it went off.
A Minnesota trailblazer fired the starting gun for the Boston Marathon's elite women's race Monday morning.
A Minnesota athlete is returning this month to the place she made sports history 50 years ago.
Members of the St. Paul-based Black Lives Matter group have held a peaceful rally at the Twin Cities Marathon. The group initially vowed to disrupt Sunday's marathon to raise awareness about issues between St. Paul police and people of color.
In a startling turn, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev apologized for the lethal attack for the first time Wednesday just before a judge formally sentenced him to death.
The life-or-death phase in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev got underway Tuesday with a prosecutor showing the jury a photo of Tsarnaev giving the finger to a security camera in his jail cell three months after the attack.
Matt Grey was originally supposed to run his first Boston two years ago, but after signing up, he had to drop out after deciding to move to Minneapolis right before the race. Instead, he watched from home as the horror of that day unfolded.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been convicted in the 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon.
A Minnesota woman who returned this year to finish the Boston Marathon despite her battle with cancer has died. Elinor Scott-Sutter had nearly finished the marathon in 2013 when two pressure cooker bombs exploded, killed three people and injured dozens of others.
A Minnesota mom who finished the Boston Marathon--a year after terrorist bombings kept her from crossing the finish line--died on Friday.
Thousands of runners finished the Boston Marathon on Monday, something that was taken away from many of them last year. Fifty-one-year-old Elinor Scott of St. Louis Park was just three-quarters of a mile from finishing her dream, when two explosions forced her off the course.
As the soreness sets in for Boston marathoners, so do the images. A few hundred meters from the finish line, a runner could no longer stand. Several others stopped to carry him closer so he could gain strength and cross the finish line. One of the helper is from Stillwater, and the moment so many are talking about is one which Mike Johnson never thought would be discussed again.
A year after the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and injured hundreds, one Minnesota woman is going back to finish the race she started. "I knew it'd be emotional going back," Jody Zylstra, from Annandale, said. "But this week is feeling like hurry up and wait."
It's the dream of thousands of runners: To qualify and finish the Boston Marathon. Last year that dream was cut short for many, after terrorists set off two bombs near the finish line. Elinor Scott of St. Louis Park was about three-quarters of a mile away from completing a life goal when the bombs went off.
