Did Mike Rossi (viral marathon dad) cheat his way into Boston?

Everything good about Boston he put in the toilet with his cheating, lying, threats, and assault on the Madam Principal.

There is no greater fool in all of running these days than Mike.

Karma please bless him again and soon.

TheDudeAbides wrote:

Everything good about Boston he put in the toilet with his cheating, lying, threats, and assault on the Madam Principal.

There is no greater fool in all of running these days than Mike.

Karma please bless him again and soon.

...and there is no bigger loser in Philadelphia than Mike Rossi. Life is so good.

Oh, Karma is and will.

Holy crap!

Mike Rossi: "Teri, I never said I had GPS data to support my BQ..I said I have GPS data to support my training for my BQ."

"Yahoo Canada asked if Rossi had any GPS logs of his training, or of his race at Lehigh Valley. He said yes, but declined to provide them for verification."

He said yes, not yes to one and no to the other. Knowing how Mike likes to Clintonize his cheating words you have to watch him try to dance around the truth and his considerable body of lies.

Of course the only GPS data he ever provided was altered, so we know he'll never provide the other data. Idiot.

Why decline all of these requests? Oh, sorry, only Barb McKeever and Via can make us understand this idiocy.

What ultimately matters is that Mike was not DQed and despite a massive online witch hunt led by a bunch of jobless trolls he came out on top and innocent. No matter how much you dug and pecked you found nothing that could stick. Mike's awesome performance is legitimate and in the records forever, no one can take his hard earned time away from him. He cooperated with the race officials and they absolutely cleared him. More than a year later, the only reason anyone would still be "looking into" it would be out of pure envy. He is as happy as ever and probably laughs anytime he thinks of you trolls still being obsessing. By the way, he will keep training and racing for as long as he likes. Don't you wish you knew what his next race is going to be? #obsessedlosers

https://results.chronotrack.com/m/ctlive/#10268/result/22879/10510918

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Hi Liar Mike!

Looking forward to your "racing"! Exxon has a cash-back reward:

https://www.exxon.com/my-account

It's a smart card to it can bring your IQ up to what maybe 90?

Say hi to your peer Bill Cosby at the Philly Loser Awards for us trolls.

As stated many times during that last 12 months, Mike Rossi's cheating at the VIA Marathon, and again at his hometown turkey trot, has now become secondary to the story here. Mike Rossi has proven over and over again that he is a small minded, narcissistic and vindictive sponge. He has ridiculed himself and sucked the self respect out of anyone near and dear to him. He just can't admit it yet.

OMG... I think I peed myself laughing so hard. This is being sent to everyone in the neighborhood and school. Both your delusional words and posting of that link is so precious. The only thing missing is a selfie!

On more video for all to "enjoy"

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-968354

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That has to be the most cheesy, self aggrandizing video ever made.

Well... maybe not the most but a close second.

I love this post. Every sentence is a lie. I find this remarkable and sad. There is just nothing true in this guys life. The "happiness" he claims, are lies, whereby, the rational assumption is the truth is the opposite. A deeply unhappy person.

Well - no. That's just not true. Mike is far from on top. He is internationally famous for being a marathon cheater and was titled biggest loser in philly by his local newspaper. That is very much the bottom.

They dug up a ton of evidence. There is simply an overabundance of evidence showing that Mike cheated. It is why he is internationally famous for being a cheater. It's also why LRC was willing to put up $200K he couldn't repeat the cheated time. Importantly, on the other hand, there is no evidence to show he could run the 3:11.

See above. Also, even if it was legitimate, a 3:11 marathon is simply not that impressive.

This is just a lie. They have never cleared him and never has anyone from VIA said that he was "cleared".

This may be the most ridiculous of the string of lies. Of all the marathons run, and the much faster marathon times, the allegation is that Mike is internationally famous out of envy for him running a 3:11 marathon at a largely unknown race. This assertion just makes absolutely no sense. It is nonsensical. Obviously the only reason people would look into it was because Mike cheated.

xtugreenfan wrote:He is as happy as ever and probably laughs anytime he thinks of you trolls still being obsessing. By the way, he will keep training and racing for as long as he likes. Don't you wish you knew what his next race is going to be? #obsessedlosers[/quote]

I left this as it's a lie, but in a twisted way probably true. It's difficult to imagine that with all this terrible international negative attention, for being a cheater, that Mike is as happy as ever. However, he may well have always been a troubled deeply unhappy person so that these events really haven't made his life any worse than how he already felt about it. More likely, he has always been deluded and living a life which was a construct of lies in his mind - the way he thinks the way the world sees him and the way the world actually see him have likely always been two totally different things.

A very sad individual all around.

A selfie you say? Here you go!

http://m.imgur.com/i3tN5IB,baWnjCf,GXmBNTE,lxC0fUU,4B57mza#

THE TRUTH HURTS, doesn't MIKE? We know, everyone here knows the truth. You are certainly right about one thing, we found nothing, as in we did not find you IN ONE SINGLE PHOTO ON THE VIA MARATHON race course. Yet in spite of you claiming that you have photos showing you on the course, and even more absurd, they were given to you by the Committee, you in your petulance refuse to show them. That means there are none. Additionally since the Committee did not mention that they had any photos or any proof whatsoever,. they too have nothing.

Not only are math and time telling kills bad, but so is your reading comprehension. Obviously you missed a lot school days too, and look where that got you.

The number, times and pace speak for themselves.

http://imgur.com/9gici0Z

What gives this thread fuel is how third-party Mike keeps posting his laughable nonsense.

I suppose he thinks if he says it enough, people may eventually overlook the obvious conclusion that Mike cheated... it is so clear, and a lazy, disinterested race director not bothering to take action is NOT exoneration.

A couple of weeks ago, this thread's domination of the cheating narrative was briefly challenged by that of Marlon Branscombe. However, that thread faded quickly... Unlike Mike, that other Cheater at least had a two-digit IQ and figured out posting ridiculous fake defenses of the indefensible was not going to work...

xtugreenfan wrote:

What ultimately matters is that Mike was not DQed and despite a massive online witch hunt led by a bunch of jobless trolls he came out on top and innocent.

Mike is a bottom. Always has and always will be.

xtugreenfan wrote:

What ultimately matters is that Mike was not DQed

No, what ultimately matters is that people in the Philly area and from around the world know that Michael Rossi of Rydal, PA is a cheater who cheated at the 2014 Via Marathon to qualify to run at Boston, and that Michael Rossi of Rydal, PA is a liar who, in the face of incontrovertible evidence of his cheating, repeatedly lied about his BQ. THAT is what ultimately matters, not incompetent race directors, non-existent training logs, underemployment, overweight arch enemies, overstated earnings, or negative net worth.

For Rossi's cheating and lying, karma has kicked the crap out of him. From being listed as numero uno of Philly's Biggest Losers of 2015, to being held to account by running legend Hal Higdon, to being publicly ridiculed by hard-core runner and Philly legend Cecily Tynan, to having timing mats named for him, to being mentioned in articles and blogs world-wide as a known marathon cheater and liar, to having to shut down his precious social media platforms, Rossi's reputation is forever ruined. THAT is what ultimately matters!

For all of Rossi's internet tough-guy bravado, we all know he lives in fear everyday, the fear that his children and his children's friends, classmates, teammates, and acquaintances will uncover the true story of the marathon cheater and prolific liar, Michael Rossi, of Rydal, PA. Despite the #lifeisgood hashtags and photos of taking his kids on outings, any parent of a teenager or young adult knows that our children ultimately come to judge us by our interactions with the world, not just our interactions with them, and while Rossi's deceitful actions probably won't cost him the love of his children, those actions will have an effect on his relationship with them at some level. Rossi doesn't have good critical thinking skills, as evidenced by his cheating at the Turkey Trot, so he didn't even think about how his cheating to BQ might affect his children if he got caught. Rossi can try to twist it any way he wants, but the fact is that he is a failure as a runner, as a Philly celebrity, and, at some level, as a father. THAT is what ultimately matters.

ab5 wrote:

What gives this thread fuel is how third-party Mike keeps posting his laughable nonsense.

I suppose he thinks if he says it enough, people may eventually overlook the obvious conclusion that Mike cheated... it is so clear, and a lazy, disinterested race director not bothering to take action is NOT exoneration.

A couple of weeks ago, this thread's domination of the cheating narrative was briefly challenged by that of Marlon Branscombe. However, that thread faded quickly... Unlike Mike, that other Cheater at least had a two-digit IQ and figured out posting ridiculous fake defenses of the indefensible was not going to work...

I thought the Marlon thread would take over, and arguably it should have, because the guy makes a living off of being a runner etc., so the cheating can be seen as worse. The real difference though is just how much Mike Rossi is hated and what a truly terrible person he is. This is an adult who calls other people's children a gimp? It's difficult to believe any adult would behave that way, let alone a guy who prides himself first and foremost as being a "daddy". Mike Rossi is also a guy who calls handicapped people and women names, so why leave children out I guess. Add in the bizarre threats and attempts at intimidation, and he's just a really nasty piece of work. It's no wonder he has no friends and failed in his career. I can't imagine it takes anyone very long to see who he really is. However, like reality TV, while people hate the villain, the bad guy draws the highest ratings. Mike Rossi is the biggest loser in philly for a reason - himself.

I am not a religious man,, but Praise the Lord. Amen!

Do you have the gimp or other name calling of children memoralized? I think it is time to share it the local little league.

The above post is a perfect example of the type of unwarranted personal attacks Mike has endured over the last year. All someone has to do is read through 1% of this thread to realize the remaining 99% is the same gossip recycled over and over again. This post, like all the rest, is filled with hateful language and a bunch of lies. I urge anyone who is reading to stop and think about the motivations of these posters. Mike is happy, successful and is a popular personality in the northeast. As a local celebrity, he's bound to be criticized or disliked by some. All in all it doesn't take much to come to the conclusion that this is just a bunch of haters out to get him. There is zero reason to think a 3:11 is not plausible, as even many of the trolls here admit it is not an impressive time. Think about it, why would Mike want to cheat just to register a fast, but mediocre time? He busted his butt in the years leading up to that race and happened to run his best ever. Sometimes you can just pull a great race out of the hat. It's sad that you trolls just can't live with that.