He said he'd rather lie than be responsible for making Shorter or Rodgers or anybody else ineligible.
I thought of two more.
Jacqueline Gareau (Boston Marathon winner the Rosie Ruiz year) came to be the official/honorary starter of the Skylon International Marathon (Buffalo NY to Niagara Falls Ontario), maybe 1978 or 1979. I was on the race committee.
There was a press conference and a lunch and one of the Canadian officials choked on something. Gareau, a respiratory therapist by training, jumped up from the head table, ran over, and did Heimlich on the guy. As soon as the choking noise started, she was on it. No waiting to see what it was all about.
Either that year or the next, she was in Buffalo as the featured runner in a women's 10K. She won handily, and afterwards we all went for lunch to a house near the park where almost everybody ran. After lunch she said (through an interpreter) that she wanted to run another 10k, and who would come along? Me. So I got to run 4 times around the park in public with her, at a decent pace. People waved. People took pictures. It was very cool.