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Rosie M. Vivas [1] (née Ruiz; June 21, 1953 – July 8, 2019) [2] was a Cuban fraudster who, among other schemes, was declared the winner in the female category for the 84th Boston Marathon in 1980, only to have her title stripped eight days after the race when it was discovered that she had not run the entire course.
Cheating, such as the use of performance enhancing drugs by athletes, has regularly affected the Olympic Games. Some countries have boycotted the Games on various occasions, either as a protest against the International Olympic Committee or the contemporary politics of other participants.
The top female finisher at a Missouri marathon last weekend has been disqualified for cheating. Kendall Schler was the first woman to cross the finish line of the Go! St. Louis Marathon on Sunday ...
The organizers of the Mexico City Marathon are investigating reports of “unsportsmanlike conduct” at August’s race following reports of cheating at the event.
In 2014, according to Young, on a 20p wager from his girlfriend, he ran two marathons around Richmond Park in 24 hours, though he had undergone no training for distance running. He went on to become a long-distance runner, while still working in a car parts store, [ 3 ] and claims to have logged 370 marathons and ultras in a year, amounting to ...
Rosie Ruiz, known for cheating both the Boston and New York Marathons, is dead at 66.
In 2018, a half-marathon in Shenzhen was marred by controversy after 258 of its participants were accused of cheating, with some caught on traffic cameras taking shortcuts and others found to have ...
Murphy became interested in investigating suspected marathon cheats after reading posts on LetsRun.com about Mike Rossi, suspected of cheating at the 2014 LeHigh Valley Marathon. [1] This led him to start the Marathon Investigation website and blog in 2015, and to begin looking at individuals who might have cheated in order to qualify for the ...