Amazing Moments In Sports History #1: Rosie Ruiz And The 1980 Boston Marathon
Curious Kid Podcast
Bleav + Olivia
4.7 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the very first episode of Amazing Moments in Sports History. |
| 0:07.8 | Don't you worry, Curious Kid Podcast isn't going anywhere. |
| 0:12.1 | Episodes of Curious Kid Podcast will continue to come out each and every Sunday. |
| 0:17.6 | In addition to all those episodes of Curious Kid Podcast, we are starting to release |
| 0:22.5 | once-monthly episodes of a new project we're working on called Amazing Moments in Sports History. |
| 0:31.0 | In each episode, we are going to cover a different, crazy, insane, bonkers event from the history of sports that happened on this |
| 0:40.3 | exact day, but years ago. We are going to learn about moments from lots of different sports, |
| 0:47.3 | from baseball to hockey, from horse racing to swimming. Olivia and Noah both love history, and they love sports. |
| 0:55.7 | So they are really excited to share these sports history stories with all of you, our listeners. |
| 1:01.7 | This first episode of Amazing Moments in Sports History will be available to everyone. |
| 1:06.9 | But starting next month in May, episodes of Amazing Moments in Sports History will only be available for our Patreon supporters. |
| 1:15.8 | To learn more about how to help support the podcast on Patreon, click on the link in the episode notes, |
| 1:22.0 | or search for Curious Kid Podcast on Patreon. |
| 1:25.8 | For the first episode of Amazing Moments in Sports History, we are going to take the |
| 1:30.9 | time machine back exactly 45 years to April 21st, 1980, to tell the story of Rosie Ruiz |
| 1:40.2 | and the 1980 Boston Marathon. |
| 1:43.4 | Welcome, everyone, to the very first episode of amazing moments in sports history. |
| 1:49.0 | Today, we're diving into one of the wildest, most shocking stories in marathon history, |
| 1:56.0 | the case of Rosie Ruiz and the 1980 Boston Marathon. How did a runner no one had ever heard of |
| 2:04.7 | suddenly win one of the toughest races in the world? And why did her victory fall apart |
| 2:11.3 | faster than a runner that twists an ankle? Buckle up because this story is filled with twists, turns, and one very sneaky |
| 2:20.9 | shortcut. Before we get to the scandal, let's talk about the race itself. The Boston Marathon is one of the |
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