Kenny Moore

Twenty-five years after running stride for stride with Ethiopian champion Mamo Wolde in the Olympic Marathon, the author began another, more urgent race: to get his ailing fellow Olympian out of prison where he’d languished without being charged or tried—for nine years.

Steve Prefontaine was a stubborn front runner. Bill Bowerman was the stubborn, successful coach who thought he could change him. Both won—and both lost.