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Eight days after winning, she lost the title
Rosie Ruiz was initially declared the women’s winner of the 1980 Boston Marathon. Eight days later, she was stripped of the victory after officials determined she had not run the full course. Arriving at the finish did not prove how she got there.
The finish line was not the end of the investigation.
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