Marathon icon Dick Hoyt dies, 80

By adamg on Wed., 3/17/2021 - 12:46 pm

WBZ reports the death of Dick Hoyt, who would push his son Rick in a wheelchair during the Boston Marathon for years.

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By mg
Wed, 03/17/2021 - 2:09pm

By Big mama
Wed, 03/17/2021 - 2:29pm

Iâ€™m sure he was heartbroken the marathon was canceled.

By merlinmurph
Wed, 03/17/2021 - 6:07pm

These guys did triathlons with Dick pulling Rick in a rowboat.
They did a bike ride across the USA.

I've watched the Marathon at various places along the course and always got a bit emotional when the Hoyts went by.

RIP Dick.

By anon
Wed, 03/17/2021 - 7:36pm

a great featurette on the Hoyts from a few years back:

By merlinmurph
Fri, 03/19/2021 - 8:45am

My bike ride today took me thru Hopkinton center where this statue at the Center School is.

Edit: fixed junk with help from swrrly

By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 03/18/2021 - 6:08pm

Select "filtered html" when you post.

You can do this now using the edit function.

By brianjdamico
Thu, 03/18/2021 - 9:27pm

The best of us.