I. The woman who “won” the 1980 Boston Marathon by taking the subway to a spot a half mile short of the finish line and then running across it, three minutes before the first actual female finisher, Jacqueline Gareau. Ruiz was actually crowned the winner—literally, with a laurel crown, as they do in Boston—before witnesses came forward to expose the scam a week later, because in those more innocent days no one could imagine anyone doing that.
