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Two weeks ago, the Mexico City Marathon counted around 30,000 participants. As the evaluation of the runner chips has now shown, around 11,000 of them did not pass all checkpoints to get one of the finisher medals.
You have been disqualified.
The trigger was anonymous complaints that some used vehicles or public transport during the run. In order to maintain the gold standard of the world athletics association, the organizers have to crack down on the cheats. “The Sports Institute of Mexico City announces that it will identify the cases in which the participants of the XL marathon have shown unsportsmanlike behavior during the event. The times of their registration have been invalidated,” said one Opinion.
The Boston marathon is considered a motive for the (self-)deception. You can only take part in the famous running spectacle in the USA if you have completed a marathon under a certain time in the previous 18 months. This varies according to gender and age group.
Hector Garibay Flores won the marathon in 2:08:23 hours. A Bolivian athlete who works as a taxi driver.
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