triathleteuguru wrote:
Doubler, just out of curiosity, how many of the people that you have posted about that subsequently got DQ'd were from results that were more than a week or two old? I had a conversation with a race director who seemed to think that results got "finalized" and that he wasn't able to DQ people past a certain point. I know in bike races there is a protest period after which results are finalized, but am pretty sure that people/results disappear from running race results all the time without any fan fare.
Not Doubler, but there were several races that DQ'd Kip Litton well after the fact. The Northville Solstice 10K is just one example. In fact, it is a great example of what the LVH Via Race Director should have done.
The email sent to Kip was in Feb, 2011. The race in question was June, 2009. Fortunately, there is no "window" in running races like these.
Here is the complete letter the race director sent to Kip:
http://kiplitton.blogspot.com/2011/10/2009-northville-mi-solstice-run-10k.htmlHe emailed Kip with a summary of the evidence suggesting he didn't run the entire course (missing from photos, a less-than-sweaty shirt crossing the finish line on a hot day, etc.), even said something like "you & I both know how easily the course could be cut", and asked him to counter the cheating claims within a certain period of time or he would be disqualified.
Wish the the LVHN Race Director had just used this as a template. And, either cared at all, or had the courage to act with conviction.