Vintage track and field

**UPDATE** Scroll to the bottom of this post for a few pre-and-post marathon pictures!!! Thank you to EVERYONE who vocalized their support on the fan page and this blog! I couldn't have done it without

Photo about Runners at the finish line of a track and field event at the 1984 Olympics held in Los Angeles, CA. (Image from color scan). Image of event, field, held - 74520378

Track & field

Track & field

The outdoor track and field season begins Friday! This Marauder relay team is in the lead in this Throwback Thursday photo.

John Ngugi, in action during the last of his 5th World Cross Country victories, in Boston, in the year 1992. Getty Images www.iaaf.org African nations are understandanbly upset these days. One of the oldest events in sport, the World Cross Country Championships, which has been held every year since its creation in 1903, with the only break of the world wars, has suddenly become a biannual event. They say westerners are ashamed of the absolute stranglehold in the discipline by black…

American track and field athlete, Wilma Rudolph pictured in the Olympic Stadium at the Summer Olympic Games in Rome, Italy in 1960.

Florence Griffith Joyner brought glamour and record speed to women’s track and field, becoming as well known for her long, painted nails as her sports abilities.