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Rampant cheating at the Mexico City Marathin (www.espn.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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11,000 runners were disqualified for cutting the course short. Not by taking a wrong turn, but by using vehicles or public transportation to cut the course short. That’s a third of the field! Wild.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Marathin? I like them marathicc. 🫠

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

11,000!

That sounds more like an issue with the course configuration and marshals than cheating

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I just looked up the course map online, and it looks nuts.

https://www.google.com/mymaps/viewer?mid=1fJ60kDW5gFVodDP5IUl4plIYGynjuXf-&hl=en

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

So many opportunities for even well meaning people to get confused. One person cheats, the rest just follow the person in front of them, and boom, your whole event is wasted :\

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don't think there is even an effective way to stop cheating that widespread. The article says every year they dq thousands of people. Either they're getting a lot of false positives or they have to make registration more restrictive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is probably just the cynic in me, but I feel like a lot of those dq's won't care. They got their medal they can show off. That's probably all most of them care about.