Did Rosie Ruiz Die This Week?

I am right here. I will always be with you, skinny boy.

A Rosie obituary has made it into Runner's World. Perhaps it's a little over the top but accurate.

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a28615122/rosie-ruiz-boston-marathon-dies/?utm_medium=social-media&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=socialflowFBRW&fbclid=IwAR1s6GZ4wf3KOCSWuVroqMMDQ4NM0M1gUIGm6rimL0XokgRP9-eRIV1ou3Q

I can’t believe she was a notary public. She has to be one of our most famous liars!

I thought maybe Norbert was a little more audacious.

https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/tag/norbert-sudhaus/

OP. If you email me, I'll give you credit for starting this thread in the NY times. They have contacted me and wanted to know how I found out about it and I want you to get your name out there if you want it.

robertjohnson@letsrun.com

Congrats! LR sleuths strike again.

Mainstream media finally caught on. If you consider the Post mainstream

https://nypost.com/2019/08/08/rosie-ruiz-famed-boston-marathon-cheater-dead-at-66/

Better late than never wrote:

Mainstream media finally caught on. If you consider the Post mainstream

The NY Times has caught on as well. The author emailed me to ask how I knew about it and I said the LRC messageboard and the author gave the the LRC messageboard a big mention in the 2nd paragraph.

See below.

Full article below.

Well done Rojo ! Letsrun does it again .

No, she faked it.

This news is going absolutely viral all over the globe.

LRC scores again with a thread about a cheater.

Another one for the LetsRun Body Count.

How many more lives will be taken by cyberbullying?

Seriously this is why we letsrun. Even if the brojos get some abuse from its loyal following they still deliver the goods.

TakeTheT wrote:

Yeah...they hadn't update that yesterday. A friend had posted the obit on Facebook. Running Times contacted me and I said I couldn't verify it 100%, they should check, but it sure sounds like her. Boston media did not publish a thing. It was a HUGE deal when this happened!

Sounds like Running Times was on this from the beginning. Why'd they contact you?

Anybody know what kind of cancer Rosie Ruiz died of?

I am a cancer survivor myself, and (at age 64) will be running my fourth 100 mile ultra-marathon in memory of those who have died of endometrial cancer (other known as cancer of the womb) just 3 short weeks from now. (A Race For The Ages, Labor Day weekend, Manchester, TN - Lazarus Lake, Race Director).

Over 12,000 ladies are expected to die of endometrial cancer in the United States this year alone, according to the American Cancer Society. I dedicate my 100 mile runs every year to each and every one of those ladies...

I am just wondering if one of the ladies I will be running to honor in 2019 will be the infamous Rosie Ruiz?

M Runner wrote:

When her boss noticed how well she "finished" after reading her time in the paper, he encouraged her to run Boston- I think some have even suggested her boss paid her way. Now motives come into play- did she try to do the same thing as in NYC- "finish" in a respectable time, but greatly mis-judging? Or did she enjoy the newfound fame and attention at the workplace and intentionally cheat to win?

I wonder if now that she has passed, are there any family members or friends who might break their silence and discuss conversations she may have had?

As another poster mentioned already having appeared in a recent WAPO story, Steve Marek was also quoted in the recent (8/8/19) NYT story:

But in 1996, Steve Marek, a defender of Ruiz’s who led a running club in Westchester, said that several months after the marathon she admitted to him that she had cheated.

“She jumped out of the crowd, not knowing that the first woman hadn’t gone by yet,” Mr. Marek told The Boston Globe. “Believe me, she was as shocked as anyone when she came in first.”

This makes a lot of sense and would make the story of Ruiz's win much more understandable. Not cheating to win, just to place high and have another fast time, but not clever enough to have waited to see at least one woman go by before jumping into the course. Once committed onto the course and then to her surprise being thrust into the spotlight as the winner, she took on a course of history she hadn't intended.

Was her form that atrocious, or do you think all that flailing was an attempt to look fatigued?

jesseriley wrote:

I can’t believe she was a notary public. She has to be one of our most famous liars!

Ya got it wrong! She was a noted Republican. Another noted Republican who was a famous liar was Tricky Dick Nixon.

Here is a copy of her death certificate:

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/08/sorry-conspiracy-theorists-rosie-ruiz-has-actually-died-here-is-her-death-certificate/