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Hoyts to sit out this year’s Boston Marathon
Posted March 29th, 2007 at 9:30 AM by Bob Ramsak
Section: News & Results, Marathons
One of the Boston Marathon’s unique traditions will be on haitus this year: the father and son team of Dick and Rick Hoyt.
Dick, 66, and Rick, 44, have competed as a team at Boston 25 times at since 1981, running every edition of the race since then except for 2003. Father Dick pushes son Rick in a special wheelchair from Hopkinton to Boston because Rick is a quadriplegic with cerebral palsy and cannot run himself.
Rick, a graduate of Boston University, is unable to compete this year because he is suffering from cellulitis, a common infection of the skin and the soft tissue immediately beneath it. He is scheduled to have surgery to alleviate the condition, but his post-operative recovery will take up to three weeks, putting him out of this year’s race.
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