Rodgers also thinks Ruiz simply mistimed when she would finish. He also said she mistimed when she was going to finish the race - Ruiz did not know no women had finished yet, and she was shocked she won. She never returned her first-place medal that Gareau earned.Ī friend of Ruiz, Steve Marek, said Ruiz admitted to him she cheated in the marathon. When Ruiz was disqualified from the Boston Marathon, she called it the “second saddest day of my lie” behind leaving her father in Cuba. Ruiz would be disqualified from the Boston Marathon later in the week. They would later see her in the newspaper, and Faulkner reported what he saw to race officials. Harvard senior John Faulkner and his classmate reported seeing someone stumble from the crowd onto the street - a woman with a yellow T-shirt flailing her arms. He and Gareau did not condemn Ruiz at any point - they only felt sorry for her.īut more evidence compiled that Ruiz did not run the whole race. Throughout the entire fiasco, Cloney was known for being very respectful of Ruiz and did not “lay into her” as others wanted to. Splits are the times you ran for each mile (or kilometer) of the marathon, and while runners in 1980 may not have had watches or GPS watches to religiously take splits, there would have been clocks at various milestones of the race to tell you your splits and elite runners pay a lot of attention to make sure they’re on track. Ruiz was branded by commentator Kathrine Switzer as “the mystery woman winner.”īill Burt at the Eagle Tribune also notes Ruiz was also asked by men’s marathon winner, Bill Rodgers, what her splits were during the race. No one saw her at various checkpoints of the race, and she was not sweating at all on an incredibly muggy day after apparently running 26.2 miles. However, according to Richard Sandomir at the New York Times, she couldn’t answer the interviewers' questions about basic things runners do to train and improve, including interval training. She had apparently run a 2:56:33 at the New York City Marathon the year before and improved her marathon time by 25 minutes. When she finished, a commentator asked herhow she improved her previous time by so much.
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