Rampant cheating at the Mexico City Marathin

https://lemmy.world/post/4572238

Rampant cheating at the Mexico City Marathin - Lemmy.world

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.

Marathin? I like them marathicc. đź« 

11,000!

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

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

www.google.com/mymaps/viewer?mid=1fJ60kDW5gFVodDP…

Ruta del MaratĂłn Ciudad de MĂ©xico Telcel 2019 â€“ Google My Maps

Ruta del Maratón Ciudad de México Telcel 2019

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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 :\
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.
Isn’t Mexico that fattest country on the planet now? Not surprising they’re not super into running…
This is probably just the cubic 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.