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

Yes he does.. But at the end of every day he is still a marathon cheater. No medal for that Mikey..

Butch Coolidge wrote:

Thread is dead, baby.........thread is dead.

"People" have been insisting that "this thread is over", " nobody cares", "the people who do care are crazy" for well over a month. And yet, the number of posts continues and has even escalated.

Every news story eventually dies, but people don't forget. It's actually impressive how long this thread has already lasted, much longer than I would have guessed possible. It clearly shows that eventually when people do stop posting, much more so with other stories, people will not forget. And I can tell you now, the one thing people will long remember years from now was not whether Mike Rossi was DQ'd or not - the only thing they will remember is that Mike Rossi is a cheater. In the U.S., in Canada, in England, etc., Mike Rossi is a cheater. That's how he'll always be remembered.

just tomato it clear I don't think SaraB actually carried Mike's bib for him while Mike paid off Barby, but it's not something we should entirely rule out. Someone needs to find out SaraB's airline records to see if she was in the area the day of the VIA marathon. And someone needs to Barbys bank statements to see if there were any unusual deposits, and then report back.

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These are not videos of the race. These are slideshows made into videos. A video consists of images at a rate of around 33 frames per second. When someone needs to see what actually happens on a video they deconstruct the video and review each frame. The components of the video are made into still images and the investigator analyzes each image in order to see details that can't be detected by the naked eye at typical frame rates. Ten seconds of video results in about 330 different images.

You are doing your analysis in a backwards, useless and unsupportable manner. The "videos" are just as invalid for proving anything as the ridiculous "statistical analysis" that is often quoted here.

Go back to your jogging and leave the scientific work to the experts.

omg they killed kenny's thread wrote:

just tomato it clear I don't think SaraB actually carried Mike's bib for him while Mike paid off Barby, but it's not something we should entirely rule out. Someone needs to find out SaraB's airline records to see if she was in the area the day of the VIA marathon. And someone needs to Barbys bank statements to see if there were any unusual deposits, and then report back.

More to come....

Forensic Investigator wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxKfEiOfGmYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGilRGr2GlI

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These are not videos of the race. These are slideshows made into videos. A video consists of images at a rate of around 33 frames per second. When someone needs to see what actually happens on a video they deconstruct the video and review each frame. The components of the video are made into still images and the investigator analyzes each image in order to see details that can't be detected by the naked eye at typical frame rates. Ten seconds of video results in about 330 different images.

You are doing your analysis in a backwards, useless and unsupportable manner. The "videos" are just as invalid for proving anything as the ridiculous "statistical analysis" that is often quoted here.

Go back to your jogging and leave the scientific work to the experts.

Hey Mike or Mike's minion. They are from time-stamped photos.

Yeah, thanks for giving this recently lagging thread a boost with your trolling or idiocy.

Forensic Investigator wrote:

A video consists of images at a rate of around 33 frames per second.

Go back to your jogging and leave the scientific work to the experts.

Go back to whatever you do, which isn't running or science. You claimi to be an expert, but then get it wrong. Who has even used 33p?

What defines if something is a video is not the frame rate used. Although, if you wanted to take that erroneous position, you should have at least stuck to the industry standard of 24p, or even 30p.

However, there are many security cameras that record at a much lower frame rate (to save data space) and will record at 5 frames per second or even slower for super cheap filming. When you watch if played back, regardless of the frame rate, it is a video.

Anyway, the point is, you're an idiot.

Maybe "Forensic Investigator" works for East Coast Event Group. That would make sense.

I predict: if we can get Ken commited to an insane asylum, but ensure that while he is there he will have access to the Internet, this thread will surpass 100,000 posts by Rossi's birthday or the anniversary of the start of the Bataan Death March, whichever comes first.

I never said they are videos "of the race." I said they are videos. Which they are. You are correct that they are made from a slideshow of photos. We actually don't disagree on that point. But nice straw man attack anyway.

And the probability that Rossi 1) ran the race and 2) was randomly missed at all five points is one in 572,000. And that's just a fact, son.

Mobile device or desktop wrote:

Maybe "Forensic Investigator" works for East Coast Event Group. That would make sense.

33 is certainly a number close to a DJ's home...

This ode to Sara is laying the whole "song" of this place in front of her feet, like an offering or such.

The dot after the questionmark is unwarranted and you therefore an idiot and hobbyjogger!

Mike Rossi wears a fanny pack.

Fanny Packer wrote:

Mike Rossi wears a fanny pack.

Thanks for adding to the thread.

Fanny Packer wrote:

Mike Rossi wears a fanny pack.

Oh man, so many things, and even that he picked the "winning" thing? The guy is so stupid it's hard to believe. "Winning" was from a drug addict in the throws of addiction behaving in a way that he regretted as soon as he sobered up and realized he was acting like a complete as$. Mikey is actually emulating a man who was at a low point in life and thinks he's winning by doing that? How can anyone be so disconnected from what a loser he is? It's actually amazing.

It's hard to imagine anyone is actually that big of a loser, he's just so overwhelmingly pathetic. I'm not saying his cheating was ok, it wasn't, but he truly is such a pathetic human being it's hard to not feel a little sorry for him.

"And sometimes, cheaters steal Boston Marathon qualifying spots or age-group accolades from runners who’ve earned them. For example, 1,947 runners who met their qualifying standards were unable to enter the 2015 Boston Marathon because runners with faster qualifying times had filled the field. If a runner who cheated to earn his time got in, he may have taken the place of an honest runner."

Mike -- you cheated an honest runner out of running Boston.

cheater cheater wrote:

http://www.runnersworld.com/racing/how-common-is-cheating-at-marathons

"And sometimes, cheaters steal Boston Marathon qualifying spots or age-group accolades from runners who’ve earned them. For example, 1,947 runners who met their qualifying standards were unable to enter the 2015 Boston Marathon because runners with faster qualifying times had filled the field. If a runner who cheated to earn his time got in, he may have taken the place of an honest runner."

Mike -- you cheated an honest runner out of running Boston.

Ironically though, what if the person who didn't get into Boston because of Mike Rossi was also a cheater? Someone who didn't quite cheat enough?? Oh, that would be a most delicious twist. Now Mike obviously cheated too much. The 3:11 time was beyond physical possibility for him and I'm sure that's what initially caused people to check the race photos where confirmation of their suspicions was confirmed. But, it is funny to think that maybe someone did cheat to get a BQ and still missed the cutoff.

You know what else is funny? Mike, being the kind of guy he is, probably usually ordered race photos (somebody must, right?). I mean, the guy had a personal videographer in Hopkinton and along the Boston Marathon course to document his big day. I bet his house is filled with official race photos from his other races (even though all 20-some of them were "training runs"). I wonder if he purchased the finish line photo from LVM. It would look weird if he didn't. Think how much money Mike has spent to propagate this lie. He had the entry fee for LVM, maybe a race photo or two, the gas money to drive to the race, during the race, and home from the race, lawyers fees.

The funny thing is that he might have spent less if he had just gone the Boston charity runner route and paid the whole amount himself.

What a tool.

How much would it cost for his personal videographer to obtain press credentials to get on the other side of the barricades?