On April 21 1980, 23-year-old Rosie Ruiz 1came first in the
Boston Marathon. She 2 won the race in the third-fastest time ever
recorded for a female runner (two hours, 31 minutes, 56 seconds).
However, the organizers 3 became suspicious, because they 4 had noticed that when she crossed the finishing line she 5 was not sweaty at all.
When they 6 were investigating
they found out that none of the course officials 7had seen her passing
checkpoints. Other competitors didn’t remember seeing her at
all.
Then a few spectators 8 said that they 9 had seen Ruiz join the race
just for the final kilometer. She ha simply sprinted from there to the
finish line. The marathon organizers 10 took away Ruiz’s medal and gave
it to Jacqueline Gareau, who 11had finished second in the race. Later
they also found out that Ruiz 12 had cheated in the New York Marathon,
the race she used to qualify for the Boston event, earlier in the same
year but in a different way…