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Many Are Paying Tribute After Boston Marathon Legend Dick Hoyt Has Passed Away

For nearly 40 years, Dick Hoyt and his son would do the Boston Marathon together, although it was anything but conventional.

Dick Hoyt’s son, Rick, is a quadriplegic with cerebral palsy. Still, in every marathon from 1981 to 2014, Dick Hoyt would push his son all the way to the finish line. It was a feat that we have never seen before, and we’ll probably never see anything like it again.

“Because of their commitment to each other, that is how they accomplished some of the athletic feats that someone not pushing someone would be able to do. But my father being able to have my brother with him at every event was just amazing,” said Russ Hoyt via WCVB Boston.

Many people have swarmed to social media to offer touching tributes to Dick Hoyt after it was announced that he has passed away at 80-years-old.

There really isn’t much to say except that we should all have gratitude for people like Dick Hoyt, who was able to inspire so many people by doing something that astonishes us.

Dick Hoyt truly is a legend. RIP.


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