WHDH
Massachusetts officials are turning to the longtime race director of the Boston Marathon to oversee vaccination sites at Gillette Stadium and Fenway Park.
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WCVB
The race director of the Boston Marathon has pivoted his business to help bring an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, and thus save his industry.
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A year into the coronavirus pandemic, Americans are painfully aware that overcoming the scourge is a marathon, not a sprint.
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GBH
This week, Fenway Park became more than just a place to cheer on the Red Sox with a soft pretzel.
The park had a soft opening as the state's second mass vaccination site. Starting next week, the site plans to be vaccinating upwards of 1,500 people each day, to start.
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RUNNERS WORLD
When it comes to planning a road race, whether a major marathon or a smaller scale event, each one requires essentially the same thing: moving a large group of people across a small course and to a finish line as efficiently and safely as possible.
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GBH
Long-time Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray is running logistics for a different type of race these days. The 66-year-old marathoner is now running against the clock in the fight to end the coronavirus pandemic.
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RACE RESULTS WEEKLY | LETS RUN
With mass-participation running events on hold, longtime Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray has shifted his event-organizing skills to perhaps the most important race of the 21st century: getting every American vaccinated against COVID19. McGillivray's event management company, DMSE Sports, is now working with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, CIC Health, the New England Patriots, Fallon Ambulance and Mass General Brigham Hospital in standing-up a mass vaccination site at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, home of the New England Patriots.
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THE EAGLE-TRIBUNE
Everyone has their own long-term goals and objectives that may frame their New Year’s resolutions so I’m certainly not going to impose any of my personal opinions on you by telling you what you should or shouldn’t set as your own personal goals.
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THE EAGLE-TRIBUNE
Although only 14 years-old, North Andover’s Luke McGillivray has a slew of medals, acquired from the many road races he has run in the last few years.
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RUNNER’S WORLD
The Boston Marathon community lost a celebrated figure on Sunday. Bryan Lyons, who took over pushing Rick Hoyt’s racing chair for Team Hoyt in 2015, died suddenly in his sleep on May 31. He was 50.
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THE ATHLETIC
A few weeks ago, my counterpart in Atlanta, Jeff Schultz, had this crazy idea it might be fun to rummage through his list of contacts and send a single text to the various sports people in his life.
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YAKIMA HERALD
YAKIMA, WA — Over the past 19 years, the Yakima River Canyon Marathon has drawn runners from throughout the United States and even beyond.
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RUNNING USA | ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE
Boston – DMSE Sports, an event management company for the road race and charity walk industries, has named Matthew West, long-time senior vice president of operations, as chief executive officer.
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RUNNING USA | ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE
Boston – Massachusetts-based event management company, Dave McGillivray Sports Enterprises, today revealed a new name and new logo that better represents its standing in the endurance event management industry and more closely aligns its image, mission, and direction.
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THE EAGLE-TRIBUNE
Dave McGillivray was going through some old stuff recently and he found a card his brother, Alan, had given him a few years ago.
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THE GUARDIAN
Sport programs in prison are aiming to end reoffending. And the results are striking on both sides of the Atlantic.
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RUNNING USA | ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE
Dave McGillivray has a lot of energy: He has completed 156 marathons, including 47 Boston Marathons in a row and the World Marathon Challenge in 2018, which involves running 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days. He’s done the Ironman Triathlon World Championship nine times, twice run across the country, and has devoted many thousands of miles of running for charities, including the Jimmy Fund, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Massachusetts Special Olympics.
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CBSN BAY AREA
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — A San Francisco man who’s running in Monday’s Boston Marathon has had a unique training regimen: he’s spent years doing laps inside San Quentin State Prison.
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CAPE COD TIMES
John Young is way past the point of people telling him what he isn’t capable of doing.
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THE HERALD NEWS
Lenny Silvia took his running seriously. But not too seriously.
He was one of the few humans on the Earth who could honestly say he had finished 26 consecutive Boston Marathons. But getting him to brag about it, or even elaborate on the feat, was a chore.
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