Regarding this year’s Beach to Beacon race:
In the 1908 London Olympics, Dorando Pietri, the apparent winner, was assisted in the last 400 yards to the finish line.
He was subsequently disqualified.
John S. “Rusty” Lamade
retired Navy captain and veteran runner
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