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John Duncan Semple (October 26, 1903 – March 10, 1988) was a Scottish-American runner, physical therapist, trainer, and sports official. In 1967, as a race official for the Boston Marathon , he attempted to stop the 20-year-old marathon runner Kathrine Switzer from continuing to run and knocked down her coach when he tried to protect her.
[99] [100] Switzer was not the first person to sneak into the all-male race, and had been preceded in 1966 by Roberta Gibb who jumped in from the crowd at the 26-mile event's start, but she was the first to apply for entry. Switzer would finish the race in 4 hours, 20 minutes, while Gibb, running again without registration, would cross the line ...
Switzer being assaulted by Jock Semple while running the Boston Marathon; taken by Harry A. Trask. At this point, according to a Sports Illustrated report, race co-director Jock Semple jumped off a following press truck and charged after Switzer. Semple did much of the actual organizing of the race, processed most of the applications, and ...
Jock Semple (1903–1988), Scots-American sports official and trainer John Greenlees Semple (1904–1985), British mathematician John Semple (civil servant) (born 1940), former head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service
The 2024 MusiCares Person of the Year is Jon Bon Jovi. Many Nashville artists including Marcus King, Lainey Wilson, Jelly Roll and The War and Treaty played Bon Jovi songs to celebrate his career.
Rosie M. Vivas [1] (née Ruiz; June 21, 1953 – July 8, 2019) [2] was a Cuban fraudster who, among other schemes, was declared the winner in the female category for the 84th Boston Marathon in 1980, only to have her title stripped eight days after the race when it was discovered that she had not run the entire course.
The Amazing Race season 36 contestants Angie and Danny Butler’s elimination was a hard one to watch as it came down to something outside of their control.. The mother-son duo had a chance at ...
"Meryl Streep’s face w the jock strap joke," one wrote. "Meryl streep reacting to being called a jockstrap was amazing," one person tweeted. This article was originally published on TODAY.com.