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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Rosie Ruiz
		Rosie Ruiz Vivas (born 1953, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban American runner who on April 21, 1980 came in as the first place female competitor in the 84th Boston Marathon with a record time of 2:31:56.
		It is believed that after Ruiz was mistakenly awarded a qualifying finish time in the 1979 New York Marathon, she was unable to admit the mistake to her boss, who was so excited by Ruiz' qualifying time that he offered to pay her expenses to Boston.
		Ruiz' lack of "preparation", coupled with the revelations of her situation in New York, have led many to the conclusion that she merely jumped in the race sooner than she intended.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Rosie_Ruiz (1376 words)

	Boston Marathon Cheat Rosie Ruiz To Tell All Tonight
		Rosie Ruiz, who skipped the first 25 miles of the 1980 Boston Marathon and became the most infamous cheater in running history, will reveal all her dirty secrets tonight on a new documentary show on the Game Show Network (GSN) called "Anything to Win" at 8 pm Austin time.
		Ruiz was trouble, inisting in the post-race press conference that she ran the entire way.
		After Ruiz was disqualified a few days later from Boston, Rodgers led a group of Boston runners who cheered Gareau as she ran the final few hundred meters of the course, broke a finish tape and was awarded the laurel wreath that rightly belonged to her.
	www.runtex.com /web/1-393.asp (320 words)

	Rosie Ruiz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ruiz quickly faded from the public eye after she was stripped of her title.
		In 1982, Ruiz was arrested and briefly jailed for stealing $60,000 in cash and checks from a Manhattan real estate firm where she was employed.
		Although there are no records of Ruiz attempting to enter the marathon that year, the rules of the Boston Athletic Association forbid a disqualified runner from racing again; Ruiz is banned for life from the Boston Marathon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rosie_Ruiz (1417 words)

	This time she'll cross the line first, if only symbolically
		Although officials were suspicious of Ruiz - an unknown who didn't look or act like she had just run a marathon - they deliberated for weeks while studying videotapes and other checkpoint evidence before concluding that she had not run the race.
		Ruiz has never wavered from her claim that she won fairly; she could not be located for comment.
		Ruiz was last known to be working for a real estate broker in the Miami area under the name Rosie Vivas.
	sports.mainetoday.com /running/stories/050410marathon.shtml (733 words)

	Rosie Ruiz Biography (Fraud/Runner) — Infoplease.com
		Suspicions about her performance were raised the next day, after race officials found that Ruiz didn't appear in videotapes of the marathon until near the end of the course.
		Ruiz insisted she had run the entire course, but the accepted theory came to be that Ruiz had hopped a subway for much of the race, ran the final mile or half-mile, and then proudly accepted the winner's medal.
		A week later Ruiz was officially disqualified from the race, and the winner was proclaimed to be Canadian Jacqueline Gareau.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/rosieruiz.html (298 words)

	1980 Boston Marathon - Rosie Ruiz Poll - GSN Buzz
		Rosie Ruiz ran the entire race and is the real champion.
		Rosie Ruiz Deliberately jumped in late during the race to win the Marathon.
		Rosie Ruiz miscalculated when jumping into the pack and accidently won the race.
	www.gsn.com /buzz/showthread.php?p=1035821#post1035821 (218 words)

	Mass Moments: Rosie Ruiz Steals Boston Marathon
		After eight days of controversy, Rosie Ruiz was stripped of her title, but she maintained her innocence and refused to return her medal.
		Ruiz's time broke famed female marathoner Joan Benoit's record by over three minutes and was the third fastest ever run by a woman.
		Ruiz was eventually disqualified from the New York Marathon.
	www.massmoments.org /moment.cfm?mid=120 (1205 words)

	The Florida Catholic - Rosie Ruiz hopes for help from Filipino community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Rosie Ruiz, parishioner at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Pensacola, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia last November and needs a bone marrow transplant.
		Ruiz is the mother of three girls and a native of the Philippines.
		Ruiz, a native of the Philippines, has no siblings, and she is hoping someone in the diocese might serve as a match.
	www.thefloridacatholic.org /articles/2004/040610/040610-pt-rosieruiz.htm (731 words)

	Rosie Ruiz Wins the Boston Marathon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On April 21, 1980 Rosie Ruiz, a 23-year-old New Yorker, was the first woman to cross the finish line in the Boston Marathon.
		She had achieved the third fastest time ever recorded for a female runner (two hours, thirty-one minutes, and fifty-six seconds), which was made all the more remarkable by the fact that she looked remarkably sweat-free and relaxed as she climbed the winner's podium to accept her wreath.
		Rosie Ruiz is supported by police after she crosses the finish line
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /day/04_20_2001.html (306 words)

	Sports: Ruiz found out she can't run from the truth
		The woman beside him, a laurel wreath atop her close-cropped hair, was Rosie Ruiz, who had just won her first.
		Although no one could prove it, and Ruiz denied it, the oft-repeated story is that she rode the subway to a spot within a mile or two of the finish line and re-entered the race.
		Rosie Ruiz -- banned from the major marathons -- became a synonym for cheating.
	www.sptimes.com /News/92499/Sports/Ruiz_found_out_she_ca.shtml (466 words)

	Hoaxes - Sports
		When Rosie Ruiz became the first woman to cross the finish line in the 1980 Boston Marathon, setting the race record in the female division, she looked good.
		Ruiz was eventually disqualified despite her steadfast denials.
		Rosie Riuz was far from the first to take some liberties with a marathon.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/hoax4.html (605 words)

	CBC Sports Online - Top 10 - Sports Cheats
		Ruiz, a New York native, set the pace for all marathon cheats to follow.
		Marathon organizers were immediately suspicious, and after some investigation course officials had no evidence of Ruiz passing checkpoints and fellow competitors had no recollection of her.
		What makes Ruiz an even bigger cheat is that she also deceived race officials in the New York Marathon, the race she used to qualify for the Boston event.
	www.cbc.ca /sports/columns/top10/cheats.html (1995 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Columnist Dean Juipe: The woman who forgave Rosie Ruiz
		Quizzed on the same subject, Gareau mentioned only that Ruiz had not been known as a world-class runner and that "she must have had very good training" for the race.
		When tapes of the race debunked Ruiz's victory claims, Gareau was awarded the championship and nine days later she was brought back from her home in Montreal to re-enact crossing the finish line.
		There, she was greeted by Massachusetts' governor, taken on a tour of the city in his limousine, made a stop at the Cheers tavern and honored at a private dinner at the Sheraton-Boston Hotel.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/sports/2000/jan/28/509774237.html (965 words)

	Active.com - Twenty years later, Ruiz's fake Boston win stands out among sports frauds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1980, Ruiz apparently snuck unnoticed onto the race course in the last mile and finished first, having not run the entire race.
		Ruiz was brought in for questioning and denied the prank, but the insurmountable evidence forced the BAA to disqualify her and hand the crown over to Jacqueline Gareau a few days later.
		Burfoot speculates that Ruiz had probably pulled the same stunt in New York the year before, where she supposedly finished fifth.
	www.active.com /story.cfm?story_id=2117&sidebar=184&category=boston2000_history (496 words)

	Running Times Magazine: Rosie Ruiz Tries to Steal the Boston Marathon
		Apparently, Ruiz had dropped out of the race, hopped on the subway, got off about a mile from the finish line, and ran in from there.
		The effect was to rob Gareau of her moment of triumph, although she was later honored in a special ceremony a couple of weeks after the race.
		Rosie Ruiz shoes--so comfortable that when the marathon is over your feet feel like they've only gone a mile or two.
	www.runningtimes.com /issues/80/ruiz1980.htm (357 words)

	SPORTS PEOPLE; Rosie Ruiz Arrested - New York Times
		Times have not been rosy for Rosie Ruiz, the bogus distance runner who created a flap after the Boston Marathon in 1980.
		Miss Ruiz finished first in the race but was stripped of her title after race officials proved she had cheated by jumping into the race about a mile before the finish.
		The 30-year-old Miss Ruiz turned herself in on a week-old arrest warrant accusing her and two other women of conspiring to sell the drug for $52,000.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE2D91339F933A15752C1A965948260 (172 words)

	GSN feels it has winner in 'Anything' - The Boston Globe
		with a two-hour episode on ''Rosie Ruiz and the Boston Marathon." The other documentaries are each an hour long and air Tuesdays at 9 p.m., with encores during the week.
		Ruiz got her qualifying time for Boston at the New York race.
		Cronin is confident the Ruiz documentary and the ensuing episodes in the series will give the network a new identity.
	www.boston.com /sports/articles/2005/12/30/gsn_feels_it_has_winner_in_anything (798 words)

	Rosie ruiz - Rosie Ruiz: Biography and Much More From Answers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		During tonight’s two-hour premiere, GSN examines the legend of Rosie Ruiz, who in 1980 cheated her way to a victory at the Boston Marathon.
		On April 21, 1980 Rosie Ruiz, a 23-year-old New Yorker, was the first woman to cross Rosie Ruiz is supported by police after she crosses the finish line
		Rosie Ruiz is an American runner who on April 21, 1980 finished as the first woman in the Boston Marathon in a record time of 2:31:56.
	book-publishing.sitesscout.com /q/book-publishing-rosie-ruiz.htm (279 words)

	Motivational Moments Newsletter
		During the 1980 Boston Marathon, Rosie Ruiz was the first female runner to cross the finish line.
		Race officials concluded that Ruiz jumped into the pack with about a mile to go, never thinking that she was actually going to win the race.
		Ruiz was stripped of her title, and Gareau was declared the winner and given her rightful place in Boston Marathon history.
	www.motivationnmore.com /newsletter/news.php?issue=201 (1009 words)

	Adelsman's Cross-Country Ski Page: Racing
		Flashback to the 1980 Boston Marathon: a woman named Rosie Ruiz came bolting across the finish line, surprised to find out she was the first women's finisher.
		Despite the allegations and ultimate disqualification, Rosie stuck to her guns, contending that she did indeed run the entire event.
		Ruiz reportedly took the subway to jump ahead, Baumann a bus.
	www.skinnyski.com /racing/articles/marty1.html (1126 words)

	What Makes People Cheat?
		Take Rosie Ruiz, who for a short time was the women's winner of the 1980 Boston marathon.
		But it turned out -- although Ruiz denied it -- that she hadn't run the race at all and had probably sneaked in 1/2 a mile from the finish line.
		According to most experts, Ruiz is the anomaly -- most cheaters aren't usually looking for that kind of public attention.
	www.webmd.com /content/Article/92/101458.htm?pagenumber=2 (506 words)

	sportsBabel » Rosie's Run
		In the 1980 Boston Marathon, a woman named Rosie Ruiz hopped out of the crowd at the 25th mile of the race and sprinted to the finish line to claim victory.
		Still, Ruiz has left an indelible imprint on Boston and other marathons around the world, race officials said.
		From computer chips imbedded in runners' shoes to a network of digital video cameras tracking the race, Ruiz's legacy is a near foolproof monitoring system that allows officials to track every one of the tens of thousands of runners in the race.
	www.sportswebconsulting.ca /sportsbabel/2005/04/rosies-run.htm (765 words)

	9th annual Sizzler season splashes out of the gates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For the uninitiated, Rosie Ruiz made international headlines on April 21, 1980, as the then-23-year-old New Yorker posted the third fastest time ever recorded for a female runner (2:31.56) in the Boston Marathon.
		It was later learned that earlier in the year, at the New York marathon, Ruiz had improved her time by hopping a ride on the subway.
		In honor of the 25-year anniversary of Ruiz's "accomplishment," Sizzler runners on Tuesday night were encouraged to cut a corner or two, as they saw fit.
	www.ledgertranscript.com /2005/archives/4_sports_063005.shtml (593 words)

	AIMS - Cheating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The infamous Rosie Ruiz, who "won" the women's section of the 1980 BAA Boston Marathon by jumping in only a few hundred metres from the finish, would today instantly show up as not having passed through any of the preceding checkpoints.
		It is not always easy to distinguish between runners who have left the course for legitimate reasons (as IAAF rules permit) and those who are doing so in order to cheat.
		Like Rosie Ruiz, this could be 41km after the start, but it may be after only 195m.
	www.aims-association.org /cheating.htm (1638 words)

	Amazon.com: "Rosie Ruiz": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Rosie Ruiz proved symbolic of her time; any study of the decade cannot avoid the illusions, imagery, and fraud.
		On April 21, 1980, Ruiz crossed the finish line in a course record of...
		By NEIL AMDUR Rosie Ruiz being crowned the women's champion of the Boston Marathon by Massachusetts Gov. Edward J. King,...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Rosie-Ruiz (543 words)

	CanadianRunner.com - Twenty-Six Years Later Rosie Ruiz Maintains She Did Not Cheat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In her first exclusive television interview since the infamous 1980 marathon, Ruiz steadfastly denies that she jumped into the race near Kenmore Square to run only the final mile of the event.
		An unknown runner from New York, Ruiz maintains that she ran the entire 26.2 miles, winning in a record time of 2 hours, 31 minutes, 56 seconds.
		Of course, the problem for Ruiz was that no one believed her.
	www.canadianrunner.com /content/view/7203/2 (129 words)

	AskMen.com - Scandalous stories
		When 23-year-old Rosie Ruiz crossed the finish line of the 1980 Boston Marathon with the third-fastest time ever for a female runner while barely glistening, speculation started to mount.
		That wariness was justified when a few onlookers communicated that they saw Ruiz join the race in the final mile, where she sprinted to the finish line.
		What makes it stranger: Two years later, Ruiz was imprisoned for stealing $60,000 in cash and checks from a Manhattan real estate firm, and 19 months after that, she was arrested again for trying to facilitate a cocaine deal to undercover FBI agents in Florida.
	www.askmen.com /sports/fitness_top_ten/52b_fitness_list.html (774 words)

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