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What do we make of this? Carter cleared by England Athletics.

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Kate Carter cleared of cheating at London events - AW

England Athletics investigation finds “no intention to deceive” by prominent running journalist

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I can think of about five very glaring omissions in this, i.e. the original Strava entry from the marathon that said "Mad GPS! There were NO 6min miles in there!", clearly indicating that people should believe that the route was made via a GPS device.

There's also the folded bib, use of someone else's GPX file in the Half, and the fact her watch was apparently working...

It doesn't actually clear her of cheating despite what her and the article says.

It says no intention to deceive and mo benefit gained.

Her strava excuse is a joke,you don't need to pencil a course to make your monthly miles,just add a manual entry.

I think that with social media and post truth being as they are "cheating " and "lieing" are now different things ie you can tell a string of lies about reaching an achievement whilst not being proven to have cheated in that achievement. So, all runners out there, if you fancy a faster time than you can actually achieve, enter a race, don't do the race with the rest of the runners, borrow another faster runner's time, and there you go.

This needs it's own new thread. it's absolutely insider kid gloves whitewashing treatment.

England Athletics:

"there was no intention to deceive and no attempt to benefit from the results”.

Carter:

“I am not a cheat. I made some stupid mistakes.”

Everyone:

To deceive your followers and benefit professionally from the result.

England Athletics:

cleared by England Athletics of any attempt to deliberately cheat

Everyone:

If I cut the course on a half marathon, obscure my bib to avoid detection and provide a cover story, I am not deliberately cheating? is that the precident that has just been established?

She has connections. RW UK is in on playing the charade for their benefits. She cheated and did so intentionally with deception. We all know this. Still don't know why because she is still pitifully slow with cheating. Nobody cares about your hobbyjogger marathon.

insider kid gloves whitewashing treatment.

Yeah. It feels really grubby, doesn't it? If I got caught doing this, they'd DQ me. Instead they're inviting her back to run this year. It leaves a bad taste, for sure.

Comments on Reddit claim that her LinkedIn lists freelance writing for Athletics Weekly, which could explain the favorable article.

She had to have cut more than ten minutes worth of distance. Her pace through 10 K was 4:49 per KM which is a 1:42 if she had just kept running at that pace.

She posted a 1:32, but also had to take time to clean herself up and fold up and pin her bib. That would take another 5-10 minutes, so 1:46 to 1:52. And she finished in 1:32?

Yeah that’s like 4 kilometers or 20 minutes missed. Insane that the race director and England athletics think that’s okay.

With an infamous ironman cheat one of the things mentioned was her physique just didn't match her alleged performance. I get the same vibe here, it is not enough to be slim, those muscles inevitably develop with the mileage required to be as fast as claimed regardless of the events under scrutiny.

The world is now dumber from having read your article (AW).

She did cheat. Her and her husband can "now" put it behind them after thinking this "clearing" exonerates them.

Sounds like some politicans we know.

Crazy all the way around. The actual truth appears to be multiple deceptions were all completely unintentional? Right.

"No deception" besides two fake strava entries and a lie about the watch being out of batteries. Do we look like idiots? Oh and hiding her race number.

But it's not cheating because she didn't mean to. What, did the strava posts just write themselves?

This is all a bit silly now but one other thing.

She says she accidentally re entered the course in the half marathon at the wrong spot She missed the 15 KM mat. The 15 KM mat is on the out-and-back to the Tower of London. It's not in the windy bit in the middle of the city. I think you'd know, being a Londoner and someone who's run the London Marathon and the Landmarks Half multiple times, if you didn't pass one of the most famous landmarks in the city that is on both those races' courses. There's a big bridge next to it too, you might notice that you hadn't seen it either.

I could almost buy the whole "oh I got turned around in the little streets in the middle!" but you'd know if you missed the freaking Tower of London. And then you take someone else's file because you realised you didn't run the whole thing.

Not deceptive though. Nuh-uh.

I love how they refer to a 5 week investigation as if someone has spent 5 weeks buried in the minutiae. I get that she didnt cheat at London marathon, as she wasnt in it, just lied about the time she'd run unofficially ( I have 100pc confidence she didn't cover the route in 3.18 on the day) to make herself look better, right alongside an " I love London marathon " message on strava . I can also just about get that the half marathon course omission can at a stretch be read as not being serious misconduct although God knows what the criterion are to be so. What I don't accept is that EA then go on to explain how important " integrity " is in the sport. Imo she's massively lacked integrity throughout the saga. "Entitlement" is the word I'd use and, officially at least, she remains entitled.

This is her burrito.

She and her media connections have circled the wagons and bought online headlines. Shame on them, but the public has no say in that. she can now rally an army of angry white middleclass women to rebuff any dissent of her claims. congratulations, we hate you.

The court of public opinion is afforded two additional official pathways in this case: 1) feedback to her professional public-facing work, and, 2) feedback to lowly shameful England Athletics.

Unofficially, this unapologetic is egoist should be wary of fighting for her place in the public limelight. I feel sorry for her husband.

Runner's World has lost all credibility...oh, wait, that happened about 20 years ago!

I could jog a 1:32 half