Boston race champ honours victims
BOSTON — The champion of the men’s 2013 Boston Marathon returned his winner’s medal to Mayor Thomas Menino on Sunday to honour the city and those killed and injured in the bombings near the finish line of one of the world’s top running events.
“Sport holds the power to unify and connect people all over the world,” Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia told the crowd through a translator. “Sport should never be used as a battleground.”
A moment of silence paid tribute to the three victims killed in the April 15 bombings and to Sean Collier, the MIT police officer who was shot and killed April 18 in a search for the suspects.