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Chinese Half-Marathon Champion Disqualified–Along with Runners Who Let Him Win
- lolc 3y ago> He [He Jie] was slightly behind the three African runners as they approached the end of the race but they slowed down and waved the Chinese athlete ahead as they gestured towards the finish line. The four had run together throughout the race of just over 13 miles. > Mnangat told the BBC that the trio ran as pacemakers and were not competing. > However, the committee said pacers would not have been allowed to participate as specially invited athletes without organisers' approval. https://www.reuters.com/sports/athletics/china-revokes-win-he-jie-after-investigation-into-half-marathon-2024-04-19/ https://www.reuters.com/sports/athletics/china-revokes-win-h...
- cafard 3y agoHaving run the Cherry Blossom Ten Miler with somebody else's bib (he was a friend of a friend and out of town), and having gone to the Philadelphia Marathon in 1983 to pace a friend, perhaps I'm not the most trustworthy commentator. The use of "rabbits" in distance races used to be common, yet it seems to me that the would drop out or drop back by the halfway mark. But hey, I paid for the Philadelphia Marathon registration, and for that matter the pacing didn't work out.
- Log_out_ 3y agoFaceculture. And now imagine this to be in everything. Sports. Research. Economics. Politics. One big fail and a curtain in front of it. only ever changingtthe curtain if the public of the world shines a light on it. Problematic doesn't begin to describe it.