Their picture is snapped at the finish line, but more and more it is cheaters’ social media posts that bring them down.Īmanda Nurse's Boston Marathon bibs are badges of honor. Runners have to wear a tracking chip throughout the Marathon and hit many timing mats along the route. She allegedly jumped on the MBTA to cut her time, but amateur sleuths say there are hundreds who cheat their way into the Boston Marathon every year. Rosie Ruiz shoes-so comfortable that when the marathon is over your feet feel like they've only gone a mile or two.The most infamous accused cheater in Boston Marathon history is Rosie Ruiz. Now Rosie Ruiz can be just like Bill Rodgers, and sell her own line of running gear. As they still do with any scandal that erupts in today's world, newspaper columnists, TV and radio talk show hosts, and other humorists had a field day making jokes about Rosie's Ruse: While technology in the running world has changed a great deal, the reaction of the popular media has not. Second-place finisher Patti Lyons, whose 2:35:08 finish set a new American record, was also pretty much completely ignored.
The effect was to rob Gareau of her moment of triumph, although she was later honored in a special ceremony a couple of weeks after the race.
Apparently, Ruiz had dropped out of the race, hopped on the subway, got off about a mile from the finish line, and ran in from there. The real winner, Jacqueline Gareau of Canada, crossed the line in 2:34:28, but was essentially ignored by the media that flocked to interview Ruiz, who had crossed the line earlier. In these days of on-course video cameras, elite starts, chips, and checkpoints, it is amazing to think that anyone could have perpetrated, even for a short time, such an obvious hoax, but in the relatively unsophisticated world of road racing in the early '80s, although there were those who were suspicious from the start, it actually took a few days before the truth won out.
It is unfortunate that one of the most memorable events in running lore-for both runners and non-runners alike-is not a hard-fought victory in a race, or a true act of sportsmanship, but is rather Rosie Ruiz's "victory" in the 1980 Boston Marathon.
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