A runner at the Boston Marathon fell close to the finish line, according to tweets from Washington Post political reporter Wesley Lowery. But instead of helping him to the side or waiting for medical staff to come, fellow runners put him over their shoulders and carried him.

At first, according to Lowery’s tweets, it was just two runners.

Then came two others and together, the runners finished the race.

More from the Washington Post:

As the runner was carried toward the finish, now just a few blocks away, the man cried out to his new teammates. “Let me walk it. Let me walk across the finish. I need to finish,” he urged those who carried his limp body. The five were now just a few hundred feet from the finish line. As they crowd roared, they set him down.
“We made a decision,” [Dave] Meyer recalled. “Let’s put him down. Let’s let him walk across on his own.”
Then, individually, they each finished the race.

(Thanks to @WesleyLowery for sharing)

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