Dick Hoyt was such an iconic figure at the Boston Marathon that in 2013, a statue was erected in his honor near the starting line in Hopkinton, Mass. The statue shows two people: Hoyt and his son Rick, in a wheelchair being pushed, as he was for tens of thousands of miles over hundreds of endurance events, by his devoted father. Dick Hoyt died Wednesday at age 80, leaving organizers of the Boston Marathon and many others “tremendously saddened.”

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