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2024: The Year in Review

VOLUME 26 | Reflecting on 2024, the 26.2 Foundation celebrates key achievements, from the International Marathon Center to global programs shaping the future of marathoning.

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Boston Winners' Wreath Ceremony turns 40

VOLUME 24 | The olive wreath tradition represents the ideals for which the citizen-soldiers fought in Marathon over 2,500 years ago: freedom, individual dignity, and the power of democracy.

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A Look Back On Great Progress in 2023

The past 12 months have been pivotal for us, and I believe we’ll come to look back on 2023 as a genuine turning point in our journey towards a Marathon Center.

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Saving the Boston Marathon

VOLUME 19 | “A toxic combination of greed, neglect, and an arrogant opposition to prize money,” is how Boston Globe reporter Brian MacQuarrie describes the atmosphere around the race in the early 1980s – and then explains how it was saved by miracles (‘The Forgotten Story of How the Boston Marathon Almost Collapsed’, Globe Magazine, 4/12/23). As the race director in 1983 and 1984, the 26.2 Foundation’s Tim Kilduff had a front-row seat. We asked him, what would he add to the story?

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Commonality and Competition

VOLUME 18 | This coming April 17th marks not only Patriot’s Day and so, the 127th running of the Boston Marathon, but also 100 years since the epic race’s start in….Ashland.

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