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John D. Kely, the 73-year old marathon celebrity who finished his 49th race this year, said yesterday he agrees with the accusations against Ruiz...
Will Cloney, director of the Boston Marathon, said yesterday race officials who reviewed films of the marathon could find no signs that Ruiz had actually run the race...
...meeting of Massachusetts' two greatest traditions--Harvard and the Boston Marathon--each considered the finest in its field. And although one stresses physical strength and endurance while the other emphasizes mental adeptness, both require extraordinary concentration of the thousands of participants who make the long and grueling trek. For some, the atmosphere is intensely competitive. Others set their own pace and enjoy themselves. Yet, whatever method he chooses, each participant ultimately gains a sense of achievement, self-satisfaction, and fond memories of the people who pulled him through...
Approximately 15 Harvard undergraduates, 25 Business School students, and numerous Harvard affiliates set out to run the Boston Marathon Monday. And despite the scalding 70-degree temperature which caused nearly one-third of the official 5364 runners and countless numbers of the approximately 2000 unofficial runners to drop out, all the Crimson entries crossed the finish line, with times varying from Eddie Sheehan '79's 14th-place overall finish of 2:19.40 to Jay Larson '81's 4:47 effort in his first marathon race ever...
Lorren Elkins '81, who completed his third Boston Marathon in 3:58, described this distinction--"It's like comparing a second-semester student with a first-semester student. The first one just wants to make it through, while the second one knows he can and now is trying to get good grades...