--- description: Sports Illustrated's new issue features a cover photograph of survivors from last year's Boston Marathon bombing. They were joined by thousands of others including Mayor Marty Walsh, police officers, firefighters and emergency personnel ahead of Monday's race title: Sports Illustrated's New Cover Commemorates Boston Marathon image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1cf1b2ff135b76c8/69868ae535ba6f890ec01886/sports-illustrated-boston-strong-marathon-issue3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Sports Illustrated's_ New Cover Commemorates Boston Marathon by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 16, 2014 1:09 PM CUT  Sports Illustrated by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 16, 2014 1:09 PM CUT This week’s _Sports Illustrated_ cover is testament to Boston’s resilient spirit in the aftermath of the bombings at last year’s marathon. Commemorating the city’s comeback since the Boston Marathon tragedy one year ago, the cover photo depicts 3,000 Boston residents, including the city’s mayor, dozens of runners and first responders in a moving portrait of the city’s spirit. To shoot the cover photo, _Sports Illustrated_ asked fans to wear Boston gear and join Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and city police, firefighters and others in the city’s downtown area last Saturday, a little more than a week before this year’s Boston Marathon. “The Boston Marathon can’t help but regenerate itself,” writes Scott Price, who wrote the accompanying story for _Sports Illustrated_ this week. “It will always be new because there’s something about its history and civic fervor, its oddly attractive personal toll, even its most catastrophic moment, that makes converts of us all.” _Sports Illustrated_ is owned by _TIME_ parent company Time Inc. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/64815/sports-illustrated-boston-marathon-cover/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/64815/sports-illustrated-boston-marathon-cover/"},"headline":"Sports Illustrated's New Cover Commemorates Boston Marathon","datePublished":"2014-04-16T13:09:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:19:55.790Z","description":"Sports Illustrated's new issue features a cover photograph of survivors from last year's Boston Marathon bombing. They were joined by thousands of others including Mayor Marty Walsh, police officers, firefighters and emergency personnel ahead of Monday's race","url":"https://time.com/64815/sports-illustrated-boston-marathon-cover/","keywords":["Sports Illustrated","Boston Marathon"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1cf1b2ff135b76c8/69868ae535ba6f890ec01886/sports-illustrated-boston-strong-marathon-issue3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1cf1b2ff135b76c8/69868ae535ba6f890ec01886/sports-illustrated-boston-strong-marathon-issue3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sports Illustrated Boston Marathon Memorial Issue","caption":"Sports Illustrated Boston Marathon Memorial Issue","creditText":"Sports Illustrated","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/64815/sports-illustrated-boston-marathon-cover/","name":"Sports Illustrated's New Cover Commemorates Boston Marathon"}}]}] ```