looking at the pictures rossi is almost the only person wearing a t-shirt much less a black one on a hot day.
I actually looked at the evidence, mostly with regard to his run times. It's actually insane how much evidence there is to show that he not only didn't run the VIA marathon, but there is just no way he ran it in 3:11:45. just no way. Just looking at his Philly marathon a short time after - how do you go from a 7:19 min/mile marathon to a 8:32 min/mile? Even if he was starting a 20 week training program the day he ran Philly, he wouldn't run a single mile that slow - not even a long easy run at 8:32 min/mile pace. He would just never run that slow. Why would he run at 8:32 pace if he can run 7:19????
If he was injured, he wouldn't run Philly - why would he? What does he gain except making the injury much worse and possibly not being able to run Boston. And as soon as he started and was only managing 8:32, that slow for him, he would drop. Whats the point of him limping through 26.2 miles at that slow of a pace?
His pace for Boston makes even less sense if he can run a 3:11:45 marathon, even with an injury. If he had an injury, then yes, that only helps prove his marathon PB is 3:43 a five months earlier and it explains his relatively slower Boston 4:01 time.
So who the hell was on the committee that looked at the evidence for VIA? It had to be non-runners or very slow runners who didn't think it through at all. Anybody on the committee who was an actual marathon runner could not have concluded it was possible for him to run 3:11.
Ok - sorry - late to the party - you can look at all the photos in the world - it doesn't matter - Mike Rossi did not run a 3:11:45 marathon in 2014. That's beyond any reasonable doubt. He just did not have the ability