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, Norway -- 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 runner, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Norway’s Grete Waitz almost gave up on competitive running before her 25th birthday. Just in time, she found the marathon — or it found her when charismatic New York City Marathon director Fred Lebow ...

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Grete Waitz, who has died aged 57, achieved an iconic status in women's distance running, winning the World Marathon title in 1983, the New York Marathon nine times, the London Marathon twice, and the ...

Norwegian marathon runner Grete Waitz has died at the age of 57 following a six-year battle with cancer. A former Oslo schoolteacher, Waitz won the London Marathon twice, the New York City Marathon ...

Grete Waitz, who won nine New York City marathons and the silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, has died of cancer. She was 57. Helle Aanesen, the manager of the Active Against Cancer ...

Norwegian marathon runner Grete Waitz has died at the age of 57 following a six-year battle with cancer. A former Oslo schoolteacher, Waitz won the London Marathon twice, the New York City Marathon ...