{"id":544533,"date":"2026-04-22T11:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544533\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:37:12","slug":"boston-marathon-ni-runner-helps-competitor-after-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544533\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston marathon: NI runner helps competitor after collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What a gentleman! What a phenomenal sportsman. Our Aaron Beggs,&#8221; the club said in a post in social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident was filmed by several spectators who witnessed Haridasse falling shortly after the 26 mile (41.8km) mark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The footage showed a debilitated Haridasse making several attempts to get back on his feet while onlookers shouted encouragement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dozens of competitors passed the struggling athlete, until Beggs, dressed in a yellow and blue North Down Athletic Club vest, stopped to provide assistance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He put both his hands out to pull Haridasse up off the ground, but struggled to steady the exhausted runner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Then De Oliveira &#8211; who was on track to run his fastest-ever marathon &#8211; also paused his own race to help Beggs carry Haridasse over the line. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair&#8217;s selfless actions, sacrificing their own race times, prompted cheers from the crowd who were lining the finishing straight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spectators filmed the incident from multiple angles and posted it on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time of writing, one of the posts has been viewed more than two million times on X. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;What a gentleman! What a phenomenal sportsman. Our Aaron Beggs,&#8221; the club said in a post in social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-544533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}