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THE BOSTON GLOBE
FALMOUTH — Back when the Falmouth Road Race was a year-old toddler, Tommy Leonard vowed that he’d take a swan dive off the Bourne Bridge if the race didn’t attract 500 entrants. “With the way traffic is now, probably a lot of people would have liked to see me do it,” the event’s founder joked during the run-up to the 41st running of what long since has become a supersized summer fixture on the Cape.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
In the panicked moments after he heard the bombs explode, Cole Keenan saw the plumes of smoke, watched in fear as throngs of spectators began rushing toward him, and worried about his mother, who was running the Marathon and approaching the finish line.
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RUNNER'S WORLD
Dave McGillivray, race director for the Boston Marathon, announced this morning he will be the keynote speaker at the 2013 Runner’s World Half Marathon & Festival.
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MLIVE
In the wake of helping guide the Boston Marathon through a devastating terrorist attack in April, the famed race's director is planning a visit to see how things are done at Flint's biggest racing event.
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GREEN BAY PRESS-GAZETTE
Bellin Run and Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray talks about his experience when the bombs went off at this year's Boston Marathon.
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BOSTON.COM
Less than a month after the Boston Marathon bombings, runners are anxious to know how the Boston Athletic Association will deal with the 5,752 participants who didn’t finish this year’s race.
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THE BOSTON MARATHON
B.A.A. Executive Director Tom Grilk and Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray appear on video (16 minutes in length) to express gratitude for the support shown to the organization and race over the last two weeks, and they also address issues relating to the 2013 and 2014 Boston Marathon.
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COMPETITOR.COM
Dave McGillivray has one of the hardest jobs in the racing industry: getting over 20,000 runners safely from Hopkinton to Boston on the third Monday of every April. The 58-year-old McGillivray, who founded DMSE (Dave McGillivray Sports Enterprises) in 1981, has served as the Boston Marathon’s race director since 1988.
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RUNNER’S WORLD
As the first string of runners cross the finish line Sunday at the NYC Half, race volunteers, known as athlete escorts, will approach an undisclosed number of elites and inform them they have 60 minutes to report for drug testing. As the athlete cools down, refuels, and responds to media, the escort won’t lose sight of the runner, as required by the United States Anti-Doping Agency, ensuring that the athlete is behind secure doors before the hour strikes.
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ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE
USA Triathlon (USAT) Hall of Fame Inductee and legendary race director Dave McGillivray will appear at TRI-MANIA Summit and Expo in Boston on Saturday, March 23, 2013 at MIT’s Zesiger Sports & Fitness Center.
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WICKED LOCAL-MEDFORD
Medford native and Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray urged graduates of Merrimack College recently to find their passion and be an “accomplisher.”
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THE EAGLE-TRIBUNE
NORTH ANDOVER — Elie Ibrahim Ata had three good reasons to be happy yesterday at the Merrimack College graduation.
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ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE
Ethos, a mass participation event organization created to bring athletes together through challenging and unique sporting events, has selected Dave McGillivray Sports Enterprises, also known as DMSE Sports, a leader in sports event management, to produce two new multi-sport races.
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MERRIMACK COLLEGE OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS
Merrimack College has announced that David McGillivray, ‘76, B.A.A. Boston Marathon Race Director, will deliver the commencement address to Merrimack College graduates, their families and friends at the 62ndcommencement ceremony on Sunday, May 20, 2012. An alumnus of Merrimack College, Mr. McGillivray is a dedicated philanthropist, inspirational speaker and has played a key role in the successful operation of the Boston Marathon for the past 23 years, earning the reputation as of one of the world’s finest race directors.
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LAVA MAGAZINE
This May, multisport will return to Temecula’s Vail Lake Resort—a privately-owned ranch about 50 miles east of San Diego—which used to host an XTERRA race a few years back. Ethos, one of the newest events companies on the scene, has two weekend-long endurance festivals planned for late May and late September, each accompanied by live music and a unique blend of endurance challenges.
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BOSTON HERALD
As the lead pack of 15 runners turned onto Waverly Street in Framingham on Monday and reached the 6-mile mark of the Boston Marathon in 29:50 in, ahem, hot pursuit of early pace-setter Glenn Randall, the traffic light above the runners’ heads changed from flashing red to flashing green. Little did they know that race organizers didn’t give the same signal to the marathon until earlier that morning.
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
The organizers had been through this five years ago, when a nasty nor’easter brought wind and rain that might have sent Captain Ahab below decks.
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