Rosie Ruiz, the Boston Marathon course-cutter who was stripped of her victory in the 1980 race and went on to become an enduring symbol of cheating in sports, has died. She was 66.
, a fitting end to one of the oddest chapters in the history of the race.
"I was with her the next day on TV, and she was just crying her head off," Rodgers said, adding that he thought Ruiz wanted to confess."If she had just said, 'I'm sorry, I made a mistake,' runners — we all drop out of races — we would have understood." Ruiz was stripped of her title eight days after the race. Canadian Jacqueline Gareau was declared the rightful winner and brought back to Boston the next month to receive her due.
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