Dick Hoyt RIP

[superjohn]

This guy was amazing, a hero for dedicating his life to his son and an unparalleled endurance athlete. If you've never heard of him, look up the HBO Real Sports episodes they did with him or the piece Rick Reilly wrote on him.

Dick Hoyt: Boston Marathon icon has died at age 80 - CNN

Boston Marathon icon Dick Hoyt has died at age 80 | CNN

Boston Marathon icon Dick Hoyt died Wednesday morning at age 80, according to his son, Russ Hoyt. He passed peacefully in his sleep due to heart failure, his son said.

www.cnn.com

 

[husky8273]

This guy was amazing, a hero for dedicating his life to his son and an unparalleled endurance athlete. If you've never heard of him, look up the HBO Real Sports episodes they did with him or the piece Rick Reilly wrote on him.

Dick Hoyt: Boston Marathon icon has died at age 80 - CNN

Boston Marathon icon Dick Hoyt has died at age 80 | CNN

Boston Marathon icon Dick Hoyt died Wednesday morning at age 80, according to his son, Russ Hoyt. He passed peacefully in his sleep due to heart failure, his son said.

www.cnn.com

met him in the Bradley Airport terminal once, congratulated him - very humble, gracious.

 

[LBird33]

Nice man. Met him many years earlier before the marathons. He was in the Air National Guard in Mass. Was a Major when I met him

 

[upstater]

Freshman year in college, his son Rick had the room directly across the hall from mine.

I don't think dorm life suited him. He was there only a couple of months. He would come out into the lounge to hang with us, especially when we were watching movies. People would joke with him. He was always with someone who was his friend or possibly an aide. He was nonverbal back then, though I read an article years ago which said people can communicate and interact with him now.