PARIS — Billy Mills is the only member of one of the most exclusive clubs in U.S. track and field history. When he dashed away from a deep field to win the 10,000 meters on a dirt track in the 1964 ...

In 1964, America was still reeling from the previous November’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy, as the country’s youth were mesmerized by “Beatlemania.” Yet something positive of an ...

BROOKINGS — For 60 years, American distance runners have dreamed of repeating the Olympic 10K victory that Billy Mills notched in 1964. As the XXXIII Olympiad takes place in Paris, Mills remains the ...

NEW THIS MORNING. LEGENDARY OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST BILLY MILLS IS SHARING HIS STORY IN A WHOLE NEW WAY. MILLS WON THE 10,000M AT THE 1964 OLYMPICS, BECOMING THE SECOND INDIGENOUS ATHLETE TO WIN GOLD.

SAINT-DENIS, France -- For so much of his career, Grant Fisher has felt like an outsider in his own sport. Regular fourth- and fifth-place finishes in international competitions will do that. But now, ...

Billy Mills was running the 10,000-meter race at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. It was the final lap, and he was behind the pack. But in the final stretch, Mills moved to lane 4 and began passing the other ...

Billy Mills turns 87 next week. Gerry Lindgren is 79. Dear friends since they were 1964 Olympians — Tokyo roomies — they also share a golden memory that turns 60 Friday. On that day — June 27, 1965 — ...

Billy Mills poked at a healthy plate of poached eggs, grilled vegetables and dry toasted rye Friday morning. The distance-running legend has neither the knees nor the appetite to compete in the 30th ...

Paris — Billy Mills is the only member of one of the most exclusive clubs in U.S. track and field history. When he dashed away from a deep field to win the 10,000 meters on a dirt track in the 1964 ...