Next month in Rio, 41-year-old Bernard Lagat will make history as the oldest American ever to run at an Olympic games. At the Olympic trials on Saturday, the veteran runner came from behind to pass 5 ...

EUGENE, Ore. – Eyes bugging out, tongue wagging, legs kicking like few legs that wizened ever had kicked, the old man realized what he’d done and collapsed. Bernard Lagat’s mouth twisted the way one’s ...

EUGENE, Ore. — For 17 laps in the grueling 25-lap 10,000 meter men’s final Friday night at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials, Bernard Lagat looked as if he’d drank from the fountain of youth.

As far back as 2010, Bernard Lagat couldn’t imagine going for a fifth Olympic track berth in 2016. “2012 will not be the end of competition for me, but the end of my track competitions almost for sure ...

In the short term, Kenyan Bernard Lagat wants to win an Olympic gold medal, and he is very animated about this. In the long term, he wants to work for Bill Gates and make lots of money, and he is very ...

Sports journalist Kenny Moore once wrote a very good profile on Bernard Lagat, the middle-distance superstar who competed for Kenya before becoming a U.S. citizen in 2004. The theme of Moore’s piece ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... EUGENE, Ore.—As the story goes, Bernard Lagat dashed 1 1/2 miles to and from school each day as a boy growing up in Kenya. Not uphill both ways, but still ...

EUGENE, OR - JULY 09: Bernard Lagat, first place, celebrates after the Men’s 5000 Meter Final during the 2016 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials at Hayward Field on July 9, 2016 in Eugene, Oregon.

"I train with young guys and I don't believe that I'm old," Bernard Lagat said after the race Next month in Rio, 41-year-old Bernard Lagat will make history as the oldest American ever to run at an ...