Hi Friends, All of us were shocked when Rosie Ruiz cheated in the 1980 Boston Marathon, especially me who was doing the coverage of the elite women in the race from a golf cart alongside and never saw her. But I grabbed her afterward and interviewed her, it became an interview in which she incriminated herself. Rosie passed away recently. I’ll never understand why she, or anyone, would cheat in a marathon. Here is Harrison Smith’s story from the Washington Post, where we talked about it.
