I agree that this thread has been fascinating. Nice going mods who deleted all the previous threads, while keeping the 100s of other threads about people crapping in compression socks. Well played Wejo and Rojo.
If it is ultimately determined some of these races are complete fabrications, then this guy deserves every negative comment that's been posted. And your man who wrote the glowing article about him in the local paper needs to do a follow-up and expose his fraud.