The foundation has commissioned sculptures around Hopkinton of important Boston Marathon figures, like Dick and his son Rick Hoyt, and Greek runner Stylianos Kyriakides, who won the marathon in ...

MARATHON, Greece, May 12 -- Athletes have been running the mostly uphill route from this village to Athens for about 2,500 years, ever since a swift soldier named Phidippides legged the 26.2 miles ...

It will unite Boston and Greece that same way," said Paul Tsitsopoulos, Alpha Omega Council president. It was the 4oth year the Greek Consul presented the wreaths ahead of the Boston Marathon.

The trophy won by the marathon winner at the 1896 Olympics has gone on display for the first time in Greece, and the new owners and prime minister said they hoped it would help inspire Greeks to ...