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Runners training for the Boston Marathon

Far from the sidelines of the Boston Marathon, Ukrainian runners keep up their training

Sports

The Boston Marathon has long been a haven for runners from across the globe. This year marks the first race on Patriots’ Day since 2019, as the world’s most famous marathon returns to full strength — or, at least, something like it. While the celebration of running has been years in the making, April 18 will be another loss in a flood of sacrifice for Ukrainians.

Esu Alemseged and Daniel Aschale

These runners from Ethiopia take inspiration from Boston Marathon’s defending champion

Sports
Still image from film "Jahar"

Two young filmmakers grapple with their high school memories of the Boston marathon bomber

Conflict
The array of events Monday ahead of the sentencing of the Boston Marathon bomber emphasizes something unique about Boston in relation to the rest of America.

How William Faulkner could explain Boston, a bombing, another marathon and punishment

Culture
Dave Fortier survived the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing but still suffers from tinnitus, a ringing sound that doctors once told him would go away within a few days.

Boston Marathon bombing survivors deal with a lingering, invisible injury — tinnitus

Health
A photo entered as evidence in the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev shows a Ruger semi-automatic handgun supposedly used to kill MIT police officer Sean Collier.

There’s likely a good reason Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s friends didn’t take the stand

Justice

Prosecutors often make deals to get what they want, so it’s probably telling that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s friends aren’t taking the stand to testify against him. The move indicates the government is feeling confident that their arguments will put Tsarnaev on Death Row without the need for deals.

Steven and Mackenzie Loy at the start of the 2013 Boston Marathon. She was stopped a mile short of the finish line after the race was bombed.

Once thwarted by the Boston bombings, this marathoner prepares for the Paris Marathon post-Charlie Hebdo

Sports

Mackenzie Loy was stopped before the finish line after the Boston Marathon bombings, so she ran and finished last year. Now she’s running the first Paris Marathon to take place after the Charlie Hebdo attacks — but that hasn’t shaken her resolve.

Kenyan marathon runner Rita Jeptoo arrives at the Athletics Kenya headquarters after failing a doping test, in Kenya's capital Nairobi, January 15, 2015.

The ‘Queen of the Marathon’ doped her way to victory

Sports

Distance runner Rita Jeptoo is a superstar in Kenya for winning marathons across the globe. But she’s now serving a two-year ban for using the blood-booster EPO to cheat.

Kenya's Rita Jeptoo reacts after winning the women's division at the 118th running of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts April 21, 2014. Jeptoo, winner of the Boston and Chicago Marathons for the last two years, has failed an out-of-competition

A Kenyan marathon champion is hit with serious doping allegations

Sports

Rita Jeptoo set a course record earlier this year along the way to her third Boston Marathon victory. But recent allegations and a failed drug test seem to indicate she’s powered by drugs.

Boston police smile for some tourists from out of town on Marathon Day.

The mood was still good at the Boston Marathon, despite tighter security

Sports

Police and security personnel put on a show of force at this year’s Boston Marathon, in what’s likely to be a sign of the new normal. But the crowds near the finish line, where two bombs went off during last year’s race, were big and enthusiastic.