Topic - Boston Athletic Association

The Boston Athletic Association is a non-profit, organized sports association for the city of Boston, Massachusetts. It hosts such events as the world-renowned Boston Marathon. - Source: Wikipedia

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A wave of runners start the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 15, 2024, in Hopkinton, Mass. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File)

Boston Marathon lowers qualifying times for most prospective runners for 2026 race

Associated Press

FILE - Susannah Scaroni smiles after breaking the tape to win the women's wheelchair division of the 127th Boston Marathon Monday, April 17, 2023, in Boston. The Boston Marathon will add two more para athlete divisions and boost prize money that will put the total Patriots’ Day purse above $1 million for the first time, organizers said Thursday, Sept. 7. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson, File)

Boston Marathon purse to break $1 million with boost in para athlete divisions

By Jimmy Golen - Associated Press

Runners approach the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 18, 2022, in Boston. Massachusetts gambling regulators on Thursday, April 6, 2023, denied a request to allow legal betting on this year's Boston Marathon, citing opposition by the race's organizers as one reason. The state last month started allowing online sports wagering on pro sports and some college sports. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Regulators deny request by Draftkings to allow betting on Boston Marathon

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Runners cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, on Monday, Oct. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) **FILE**

Runners from Russia, Belarus excluded from Boston Marathon

By Peter Santo - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 15, 2019, file photo, the elite women's division runners break from the start of the 123rd Boston Marathon in Hopkinton, Mass. Native Americans in Massachusetts are calling on the organizers of the Boston Marathon to move the already rescheduled date for the storied race on Oct. 11 because it conflicts with a day meant to commemorate the contributions of Indigenous peoples. (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)

Native Americans: Move Boston Marathon from Oct. 11 holiday

By PHILIP MARCELO - Associated Press

Pandemic-delayed Boston Marathon field set for 20,000

Associated Press

In this April 17, 2017, file photo, runners head down the stretch to the finish line in the 121st Boston Marathon in Boston. Rival camps in the running world began snapping at each other's heels in March 2021 after the Boston Athletic Association, which still hopes to hold a truncated in-person edition of the footrace in October, said it would award medals to up to 70,000 athletes if they go the distance wherever they are. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File) **FILE**

Boston Marathon plan to hand out 70,000 medals roils runners

By William J. Kole - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2018, photo, Marko Cheseto, a college All-American who lost both feet to frostbite after being stranded outside in an Alaskan blizzard in 2011, competes in the Skinny Raven Half Marathon during the Anchorage RunFest in Anchorage, Alaska. After making his marathon debut in New York in 2018, Cheseto will run in the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2019, with the goal of competing in the race's new Para Athlete division in 2020. (Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News via AP, File)/Anchorage Daily News via AP, File)

Boston Marathon to add para athlete divisions in 2020

By JIMMY GOLEN - Associated Press

Boston Marathon runners find ‘bandits’ in bibs

By JIMMY GOLEN - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2014 - In this Thursday, April 17, 2014, photo, University of Massachusetts nursing professor Adrienne Wald, center, helps carry a banner that features a photo of Krystle Campbell, a UMass nursing student who died in the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, during a tribute walk on a track at the school in Boston. Wald, who has run the Boston Marathon five time, organized a group of her students last year to work as race volunteers on the sweep team, standing with wheelchair runners they expected to be dehydrated or otherwise needing minor medial care. None of her students was injured in the bombing. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Boston race makes room for those affected by bombs

By JIMMY GOLEN - Associated Press

Correction: Boston Marathon-Field story

By JIMMY GOLEN - Associated Press

** FILE ** Carlos Arredondo (left) rushed to help Jeff Bauman after the Boston Marathon bomb attack on April 15, 2013. (Associated Press)

Military group can’t march to honor the fallen at Boston Marathon due to security changes

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Boston Marathon bans bags as part of security plan

By DENISE LAVOE - Associated Press

This combination of images released by the FBI on Thursday, April 18, 2013, show two images taken from surveillance video of Dzhokhar (left) and Tamerlan Tsarnaev (right) as they walk near each other through the crowd before the explosions at the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/FBI)

Boston Marathon bans bags near start, finish line of race

By Denise Lavoe - Associated Press

New app spreads spirit of 2014 Boston Marathon

By PAIGE SUTHERLAND - Associated Press