Thursday 7 September 2023

Cheats Never Proper,

I think is the phrase, 


as an alleged 11,000 found out when they were accused of not completing last month’s Mexico City Marathon, they have been disqualified by organizers for cheating by cutting out sections of the 26.2-mile course, so of the 30,000 runners basically more than 1 in 3 allegedly cheated! “The Mexico City Sports Institute informs that it will proceed to identify those cases in which participants of the XL Mexico City Marathon Telcel 2023 have demonstrated an unsportsmanlike attitude during the event and will invalidate their registration times,” marathon organizers told Spanish newspaper Marca, I guess they must have heard of Joasia Zakrzewski or KellyAgnew, well it did not work for them either!

 Some of the disqualified runners disputed the accusations, claiming that the trackers had been faulty, but so far the organizers of the Mexico City Marathon, one of the most important running events in North America, have maintained their decision, as it happens this is not the first time cheating has happened in this race, in 2017 a total of 6,000 runners were stripped of their finishing medals after it was discovered that they had not completed the entire race, and the following year another 3,000 participants were disqualified, all of that work, just to throw it all away!


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