This week, the news hit Boston that the infamous Boston Marathon cheater Rosie Ruiz has died. It was a development as mysterious as her ordeal in the city nearly four decades ago. WBZ-TV's Christina Hager reports.
Jacqueline Gareau was the rightful winner that day, who had Ruiz steal what should have been one of the greatest days of her life from her. Jacqueline Gareau set the Boston Marathon woman’s record that day
@@TheBestEverEverEver did you know that in 1904 and the safety Lewis Marathon Fred Lawrence finished first with a time of 3:14 but was disqualified he later ran in the 1905 Boston Marathon and won 🏆 😀 nobody said anything back then and nobody seems to be complaining about that nowadays either
@@suziecreamcheese211 She embezzled money from a company that she worked for, and she also became a cocaine dealer! And shamefully, the government kept giving her a slap on the hand and merely probation.
@@eugenediaz4386 too much upper body movement. elite runners learn to let their legs do the work and not waste energy rolling their heads and upper body.
@@fredlast4547 Okay first she's not running now you change your argument to she's not an elite Runner? Do you Even know the definition of an elite Runner. You're not an elite Runner are you. Not all first place runners come from the Elite Class. And I'm sure you know that a lot of the runners fall down at the finish line ??
Linda, your analysis is spot on. She obviously had a criminal mind. Further evidence : In 1982, Ruiz was arrested for embezzling $60,000 (equivalent to $168,000 in 2021) from a real estate company where she worked. She spent one week in jail and was sentenced to five years' probation.She then moved back to South Florida, where she was arrested in 1983 for her involvement in a cocaine deal. She was sentenced to three years' probation.
If she'd admitted to it at the time, I'm sure her life would have a lot easier in the long run. I guess when they put the wreath crown on her and people cheered I guess she went with it. Once she's lied twenty times, it becomes much harder to tell the truth. The interview right after the race is comical, she doesn't even what intervals are.
@@babygirl6789 sorry, I wrote that 2 years ago. I think I was teasing, but I don't remember. I think it was equally related to the comment right before yours, which created the context for teasing.
On another account which features this it was said that she had run a race previous to this, took the train journey because she had heard a previous runner had done the same, and completed the race in a respectable time... but not at the front. When she went back to her office they were all eager to know her time, so of course she told them. Apparently, her employer were so impressed that they paid for her to enter the Boston marathon, even paying for her hotel room. When she joined the race having cheated, she probably thought she was somewhere in the middle-of-the pack not realising that she had won. The reality is what she thought would be an unremarkable event snowballed out of control. She lied because she could never admit it to herself but deep down inside she knew, you cannot fool yourself.
Blah blah blah he said she said that he said that she said next time bring your facts, and as far as the other accounts things don't look so good for Boston
@@ronaldpettifurd5957 I think you need me to stop because I think you're a control freak. As for seeking Mental Health Well if you're so naive that you can't tell I'll tell you I'm with the people you need to see
I don’t think it’s painful at all, she went to the grave telling HER truth I don’t think she cared about what anybody thought..she even confronted who she beat In the marathon and said she’d beat her again lol… she wasn’t ashamed
She’s far from resting in peace pal. The Bible is clear that God holds liars in the same class as murderers. She never confessed her sin and carried that to the afterlife where there is no running from the daily torment she will suffer for eternity.
Started this clip disgusted with this infamous cheater, then remembered my own life when I tried to cheat at something in some form or fashion. It never was rewarding, than sweating it long and hard, the right way and still and failing. I feel sad for her life, before and after the race.
The very second I saw her I knew she was a cheat. Séems she got off bus early and jumped in final blocks not knowing she was ahead of that world class French Canadian runner Jacqueline Gareau...so she stole Jaqui's limelight....shame on her
Although not on the same level to which she cheated, sadly there are many more cheaters like her in the sport today. I personally know a few of them and sadly, they still continue to get away with it. Thankfully, with people today like Jonathan Caine and Derek Murphy, two expert Marathon investigators who work hard to “out” these cheaters, it will hopefully deter others from doing the same thing Rosie did.
Really sad more than anything. I mean, everyone lies or has lied from time to time. But the fact that she spent the rest of her life doubling down, tripling down, and doubling down some more on that one lie is so sad. Incidentally I'm fairly well acquainted with this type of behavior - my brother is and kinda has always been a compulsive liar. Not a bad guy, just lies all the time even when there is no reason (or at least none that make sense) to lie. If I call him out on his lie(s) he always doubles down on it and starts trying to spin it to retroactively make his lie fit, obfuscate with loads of unnecessary details that actually have no bearing on the topic, and most of all keep adding more and more lies to the pile... all just to try to unsuccessfully defend that first lie. I've always felt that he has a tough time allowing himself to be in touch with his feelings. He's more or less unable to admit fault or being wrong, so he also can't admit he lied, and makes a lie so much worse by addijg 15 more lies to it to try to keep the first lie intact. So i gueas I can kinda understand Rosie a bit. She was probably the kind of person who cannot even really look herself in the mirror and admit fault. Just a troubled person...
@@HolyRollerTV no there are docs showing that she didn't mean to win. she had cheated previously running a 2:55 in new york, and her work colleagues were so proud of her that they flew her out to Boston to compete. she meant to run something in the 2:40s, probably but miss timed it. still a troubled soul.
I recently ran a pb at my local Marathon and my local Parkrun Ive been chasing both for for over 6 years Im not an elite runner but i worked hard over the last year with my training my diet and weight loss to do it Ill never understand why people cheat at these events to win or claim a pb I just dont get it Integrity and character is when you do the right thing even when noone is watching
It's all because of one thing: desperation for validation. The people who cheat derive their self worth from their external achievements. They need the praise and recognition they get it for achieving those things because they lack the internal self love the rest of us have to feel worthy on their own. We don't need trophies to tell us we have value and we can take a loss because we know it doesn't define our worthiness, we still have our own inner self worth to validate us. They don't. Winning is more than just a trophy to them, they feel like they NEED it to justify their existence. For most people who are set on achieving accomplishments, they would just focus and work harder to earn it the honest way. But for this type of person, they don't actually believe they can. The rest of us are secure enough to put in the hard work that's required to achieve success, because we believe it's actually possible for us to achieve, They don't. They don't have the confidence that's required for them to put themselves out there when there's a risk of losing, this is what drives their compulsion to "steal" the win. Think about it, if you know you can succeed and you can earn the win legitimately, are you going to bother cheating? Of course not, you don't need to and it won't feel as good if it's hollow, there's no reason for you to cheat. But they don't trust that they're good enough to succeed on their own merit. When you combine an inner worth that's tied entirely to outer success, with an insecurity and doubt to achieve success like that, you end up with the people who are driven to cheat. As frustrating as it is to be on the other side, I just end up feeling sorry for someone so empty and desperate that they need the illusion of success to feel ok with themselves 🤷🏼♀️
@L Blincoe I'd have to agree on the desperation for validation Sad to think people want it so much that they have to cheat to get the praise they need Delusional People need to just put training and effort in to achieve it honestly Im not even close to winning any events I run Top 20 % is my best on a good day and I'm happy with that
@@eugenediaz4386 what am I meant to keep trying? Someone expressed confusion about something, therefore I sought to share my understanding of said thing, which I've done. So what is it I'm supposed to keep trying?
OMG - her thighs were thicker than mine - and I'm 6'-2" and 220 lbs. I broke one of my feet months ago and hadn't been able to walk again until recently. I'll be back to around 200 lbs eventually.
Whether she looked like a runner or not, whether she was sweating or not, etc. None of these matter. The fact that she improved her time from 2 hours 56 minutes (New York Marathon) to 2 hours 31 minutes (Boston Marathon) within a couple of months was a clear and obvious sign that she cheated. Now, I recognize that her NY Marathon run was also probably cheating. But improving a marathon time by 25 minutes within a couple of months isn't something that happens with a runner that is supposed to be world-class. That is a 14% improvement. That would be like a sprinter who runs the 100 metres in 10.0 seconds becoming a 8.6 second sprinter in a couple of months. That would never happen.
02:12 min. mark. Wonder if it was up the track from the same AmTrak train Joe used to jump on, between Washington and his basement in Wilmington "and stuff??? 🤪🤪🤪
@Toni Reavis I don't know about officially running in the Boston Marathon But I think I can say about the running officials. You see the video ,you see a woman in the video, now tell me officially that she is not a runner, when you can clearly see in the video that the woman you are speaking of. IS RUNNING !
She admitted to her best friend at the time that she did cheat but she had not planned on being FIRST. When she jumped out of the crowd to run to the finish line she had no idea what place she was in, but figured she would be around the first 10 or more. At the finish line, before she could say or do anything, everyone was running up to her and congratulating her and hugging her and crowned her, etc. She still should have told the truth, but she got caught up in it all and kept the lie rolling.
As a middle school track distance runner and soon to be cross country runner, we don't need cheaters, liars and criminals who don't acknowledge their mistake. Might have fake beaten the marathon but couldn't do the same to death🤣🤣🤣
Wait at your age you still need to be asking for permission. Not withholding rights from older runners, Let us know when you're driving to work instead of taking the bus yourself Let the adults deal with it
@@eugenediaz4386 I never did anything that a middle schooler couldn't do. I'm just saying that as a runner, it makes me cringe how she cheated. I'm not dealing with anything here. I'm just commenting.
@Toni Revis I don't mean to cause a traffic jam that's not what I want but I'm just saying that's the first camera view that does show her running, then all other cameras that were filming from this point around this point would show the same thing but if they Point backwards on the course, I would search for the first camera that shows maybe that she's not there before I call it a evidence in a court case
Johnny Manziel’s model wife at the time and her friend in 2019 pulled something like this too at a half marathon where they finished with an unheard of record time. It was same thing both of them didn’t even break a sweat and their make up was still in tact. Here’s the video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qqtDgMLx-D0.html Luckily it wasn’t a major marathon
