Zola Budd Pieterse’s children have seen films of her race with Decker, but she has never cared to. “My oldest daughter asked my mother about it one time, and she showed it to them,” Zola says.

Eighties long-distance runner Zola Budd — who famously collided with Mary Decker at the 1984 Olympics — is coming out with a memoir that promises to lift the lid on shocking allegations of ...

British Olympian Zola Budd is famous for running barefoot, 'tripping' Mary Decker and being South African. As a 17-year-old, Budd broke the 5000 metres record, although the white teenager's effort ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. When Decker tripped on Budd’s heel, went down in the infield ...

Beginning at age 14, South African Zola Budd — often running shoeless — sprinted to the front of the pack of competitive women’s distance running, competing in the 1984 Olympic ...

As Zola Budd Pieterse headed out along the Boulder Creek Path on a group run earlier this month, she looked much the same as she did in that most famous — or infamous — of races in Olympic ...

Zola Budd and Mary Decker were perfect candidates to be added to that list of enduring sporting rivalries – except that theirs has an almost happy ending.

This time, it was Zola Budd on the ground. And this time, she was wearing shoes. The South African track and field legend was in Sacramento, Calif., on July 6 competing at the World Masters ...

JOHANNESBURG -- Former world record holder and barefoot running sensation Zola Budd will compete in South Africa's Comrades ultra marathon. Budd still finds running "very challenging," and its the ...

Former Olympian Zola Budd appeared at a high school and college cross country meet in Cary, N.C. over the weekend. Budd was a "guest" runner at the Robert Shumake HBCU Challenge Women 5K, which is ...

There was just one obstacle: a waif-like, 18-year-old sensation from Bloemfontein called Zola Budd, who ran barefoot and had shattered the world 5,000m record the previous January.