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Remembering Rick Hoyt, a Boston Marathon fixture

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The son in the father-son wheelchair duo, known for competing in the Boston Marathon, has died. Rick Hoyt’s family says he passed away Monday from respiratory complications.

To remember him, WBUR's Morning Edition is revisiting an interview Sacha Pfeiffer did with the father-son duo nearly a decade ago.

This segment aired on May 23, 2023.

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