{"id":43985,"date":"2014-04-21T15:25:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T20:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=43985"},"modified":"2014-04-21T15:25:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T20:25:15","slug":"boston-marathon-winners-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=43985","title":{"rendered":"Boston Marathon Winners,  2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/boston-marathonrunners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16880\" alt=\"womenrunners152way\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/boston-marathonrunners-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>BOSTON (AP) &#8211; The winner Boston Marathon men&#8217;s race had the names of last year&#8217;s victims written in marker on the corners of his race bib.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Meb Keflezighi (kehf-LEHZH&#8217;-gee), the first American to win the men&#8217;s race since 1983, wore his official runner&#8217;s bib with the names of the three people killed in last year&#8217;s marathon as well as the name of a police officer from MIT who was allegedly killed by the bombing suspect several days later.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Keflezighi, a former New York City marathon winner and Olympic medalist, says he hoped to have his picture taken with the victims&#8217; families after his win Monday, but they weren&#8217;t immediately available.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The victims were 8-year-old Martin Richard, 29-year-old Krystle Campbell and 23-year-old Lu Lingzi (loo ling-zuh). MIT Officer Sean Collier was shot three days after the marathon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0BOSTON (AP) &#8211; Rita Jeptoo of Kenya successfully defended the Boston Marathon title she said she could not enjoy a year ago after the fatal bombings.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeptoo finished Monday&#8217;s race in a course-record 2 hours, 18 minutes, 57 seconds. She becomes the seventh three-time Boston Marathon champion.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeptoo broke away from a group of five runners at the 23-mile mark. Buzunesh Deba finished second with an unofficial time of 2:19:59.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 American Shalane Flanagan finished fifth after leading for more than half the race. She took a gamble by setting the early pace. She ran her first mile in 5 minutes, 11 seconds, but fell back on the Newton Hills about 21 miles into the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BOSTON (AP) &#8211; The winner Boston Marathon men&#8217;s race had the names of last year&#8217;s victims written in marker on the corners of his race bib. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Meb Keflezighi (kehf-LEHZH&#8217;-gee), the first American to win the men&#8217;s race since 1983, wore his official runner&#8217;s bib with the names of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43988,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43985\/revisions\/43988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}