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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