The late Olympian and politician Dick Quax worried his cancer treatment would stop as his bank account was drained by a fraudster signing cheques across Auckland in the sporting great's name. Quax ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand runner Dick Quax died on Monday at the age of 70 after a long battle with cancer. Regarded as one of his country's greatest runners, Quax won a silver medal in ...

Quax, while never winning a New Zealand cross-country title, was a member of the New Zealand squad that won the teams title at the 1975 world championships. While never a "my way or the highway" sort ...

Quax emerged as one of New Zealand's finest athletes in a pinnacle era for the sport. He won a Commonwealth Games silver medal in 1970 in Edinburgh and at the 1976 Olympics was pipped in a thrilling ...

Even in his final days, Dick Quax never lost sight of the utter privilege and enormity of what he achieved in his pomp as one of the golden boys of New Zealand sport. "We saw ourselves as rock stars," ...

Quax, a former crash pilot, has now become a skilled pilot who even trains student pilots himself. When he crashes his plane with two women on board in the African jungle due to a malfunction, he has ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand runner Dick Quax died on Monday at the age of 70 after a long battle with cancer. Regarded as one of his country’s greatest runners, Quax won a silver medal ...