![]() ![]() “I was actually ignored,” Gareau said, laughing. In 1980 she not only won the Boston Marathon, she set a course record of 2:34:28.īut when she crossed the finish line there was no victory tape. She knows the feeling of losing a podium spot. “I feel for the people who were clean,” she said. Wisdom comes from having the Boston Marathon stolen from you. “I always suspected him,” Gareau said in an interview from her home Thursday near Montreal. The victim of one of sports most notorious scams knows cheaters. Now that Lance Armstrong has finally come clean, it’s Rosie Ruiz’s turn.Ĭertainly nothing about duping and doping Armstrong admitted to Oprah Winfrey was a surprise to legendary Canadian marathoner Jacqueline Gareau. ![]() Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.Read next: Survivor: Last Year’s Marathon Was for Boston. Read more about the history of the Boston Marathon, here in the TIME archives: A Long Running Show An unscrupulous couple who finished first in the senior category of the 1997 marathon were quickly found out, despite having registered at the course’s computer checkpoints, because they failed to appear on video shot at secret locations. Meanwhile, Boston Marathon organizers have made it harder to follow in Ruiz’s fraudulent footsteps. In 1982, she was charged with stealing $60,000 from the realty company she worked for, and in 1983 she was arrested for selling two kilos of cocaine to an undercover detective, per the AP. ![]() Even her application for the New York Marathon was based on a lie: An Associated Press story reveals that she submitted the form after the deadline had passed, but then got “special dispensation” by claiming she had a fatal brain tumor.Īnd while Ruiz never faced criminal consequences for faking her race finishes, she later ran afoul of the law for unrelated reasons. She may not have had much training as a distance runner, but she seemed to have a great deal of practice in bending the truth. ![]()
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