Rosie Ruiz
Rosie Ruiz Vivas (born 1953, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban American who achieved notoriety when she was declared the winner in the female category for the 84th Boston Marathon in 1980, only to have her title stripped after it was discovered that she had not run the entire course.
Read more about Rosie Ruiz: Background, Boston Marathon, Aftermath
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“Yet fairest blossome do not slight
That age which you may know so soon:
The rosie Morn resignes her light,
And milder glory to the Noon:
And then what wonder shall you do,
Whose dawning beauty warms us so?”
—Edmund Waller (1606–1687)