https://www.marathoninvestigation.com/2017/02/runner-disqualified-after-claiming-2nd.html

Laura was a year behind me in school. Marathons were still kind-of new in 1979 and the Chicago marathon was only 3 years old. Laura mentioned she was going to run the marathon and when I asked her why she said she thought it would be fun and it would be good for training (in the article she states she had never run further than 10 miles prior). She came in 3rd in the women’s group, but it was later learned the first two women had cheated (I think one took a taxi and the other the El for part of the race). Good kid, Laura, and a great athlete!

I lived in Boston then in Kenmore Square along the marathon route. I was even training as a distance runner with thoughts of running a marathon someday, though not Boston because the qualifying times were impossibly stringent for average runners.

My peak was ten miles in 76 minutes but past that my left knee would give out. Years later I discovered I had torn my anterior cruciate ligament in high school. So marathons weren’t really in my future.

I remember feeling sorry for Rosie as a person so desperate for attention that she would cheat so baldly.

However, from the article neo linked, I see Ruiz was later charged with stealing $60,000 from her company, and after that of selling two kilos of coke to an undercover agent. So I guess she had a criminal nature.

Some subsequent history for Rosie:

n 1982, Ruiz was arrested for embezzling $60,000 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. In April 1993, she was working in West Palm Beach as a client representative for a medical laboratory company.

Cap’n Rusty Says:

April 13th, 2017 at 12:18 pm

I take it Rosie later had a position of some sort in the Obama White House? I mean, she was perfectly qualified . . .

Susan Rice got that job.

and since you added a picture they provided:

Photography works upon the human eye: what is seen is reflected in the brain without the need for complicated thought. In this way the bourgeoisie takes advantage of the mental indolence of the masses and does good business as well.
Willi Munzenberg

Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.
Willi Munzenberg

sport has come to be identifi

ed with five facets common to all totalitarian societies:
Authoritarian
Favouring the military and secret police
Nationalistic
Mobilising the masses

Kept under Party control, with high political priority

But sport has also acquired a unique meaning for ordinary people in terms of identity and the Platonic ‘empathy and catharsis’. Furthermore, there have been significant similarities and differences in the status and objectives of sport in totalitarian states.

Totalitarianism and sport in Russia pp. 54-69

and for the people in such countries, sports, dance, competition, all lead tothe potential freedom they cant get any other way.

there is a huge list of defectors from such countries. who took advantage of their being selected for sports (by muscle tests and other things as it IS a dictatorships)