JOKM
Verdict is In
Back To Square One
Trollist
Spartacus [sic]
So many more I've forgotten - often with wild allegations trying to get the thread pulled you could surmise.
Oh and many times other people have been impersonated which seems to fool the simple-minded every time, obviously this could be anyone.
Wow, how would back at square one know about all of the details innthe emails between kip and mark singer?? Only rational explanation is that it is kip.
It is Kip
He isn't that good at making shit up
In “Marathon Man” (p. 40), Mark Singer investigates the strange controversy surrounding Kip Litton, a small-town dentist who has allegedly repeatedly cheated in marathons. “Since the early nineties, technology has made it possible to clock runners with precision and to track them at measured intervals,” Singer writes, but Litton, who was on a self-professed mission to complete marathons in under three hours in all fifty states, appears to have exploited the running community’s faith in those systems to fraudulently win, or place in, various races. Litton has “become a consuming object of contempt” in the running community, much of which has played out in the blogosphere. “For a man or a woman of any age, a marathon performance of under three hours is considered a mark of distinction,” Singer writes. Litton, who until the fall of 2010 maintained a Web site chronicling his races and his mission to raise funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (his son suffers from the disease), claimed to have finished twenty marathons in under three hours. However, a few race directors began to notice that he was only present in photographs from the beginnings and ends of their marathons, and never along the course. Furthermore, he often appeared in different clothing at the start and finish. After being disqualified from a number of races, he would simply delete the result and the recap from his Web site, “as if he had never registered for the race,” Singer reports. Others in the racing community began to notice the discrepancies, too, and took to the Internet forum LetsRun to discuss their theories. Michael McGrath, a former assistant track and cross-country coach at Haverford College and a LetsRun visitor, learned that, in February, 2009, Litton had run a fifteen-kilometre race in Florida. According to the split times, his pace during the second half—five minutes, twenty-four seconds per mile—was almost two minutes faster than during the first half. “Such a divergence is called a ‘negative split,’ ” Singer writes, “and a variance of that magnitude is as common as snow in Miami.” The online community soon noticed that one race on Litton’s Web site —a marathon in west Wyoming—was fabricated altogether. “For his fabricated marathon, Litton had assembled not only a Web site but also a list of finishers and their times (plus name, age, gender, and home town), and created a phantom race director, who responded to e-mail queries,” Singer reports. Pressed via e-mail by other runners, Litton “denied that he had cheated or had intended to deceive.” When Singer speaks with Litton, he offers “deflection, not explanation.” Singer reports that Litton “acknowledged that he had been disqualified from several races, but only for unintentional infractions. He conceded only to having ‘been careless, not paying attention.’ ” Ultimately, Singer writes, “the paramount question was ‘How?’ Did he have an accomplice? Did he drive from point to point? Ride a bicycle? Devise digital subversions?” At the Boston Marathon, “the oldest, most prestigious, and most professionally managed event on the American racing calendar, Litton had hit every split, changed his clothes along the way, and broken three hours,” Singer writes. “No one but Litton could say how he did it.”
Read more
http://www.newyorker.com/services/presscenter/2012/08/06/120806pr_press_releases#ixzz2228Rgpg0
^Yawn. Nothing new there and just a rehash of this thread.
Disappointing.
whatley wrote:
^Yawn. Nothing new there and just a rehash of this thread.
Disappointing.
oh really?
It appears Singer will also touch on the vehemence of his accusers. At least I hope so. While I am no fan of this serial cheater, I do find this thread rather absurd.
Ben Dover II wrote:
whatley wrote:^Yawn. Nothing new there and just a rehash of this thread.
Disappointing.
oh really?
Did you read anything that has not already been covered ad nauseum in this thread?
Holy Moses this is real! I can FINALLY stop following this thread!
Although personally never convinced that an article would prove anything we didn't know, all the doubters will no doubt come and apologize.
I may be mistaken but isn't the page linked to an intro or taster for what has actually been written?
“For a man or a woman of any age, a marathon performance of under three hours is considered a mark of distinction,” Singer writes.
Sorry, Marky. You lost me there.
oh, really? wrote:
Please understand that “Back at square one” is without question Kip Litton. For a long while now, his trolling has been increasingly bizarre and hysterical. And he will continue to troll, in various guises – as he has ever since this thread began – long after the rest of the world has lost all interest. His story is sad and he is a sad man. With the obvious unfortunate exception of illnesses experienced by his children, he is the sole architect of his difficulties.
My article about him in The New Yorker will be published Monday (July 30), in the issue dated August 6, 2012.It will also be available on our website (www.newyorker.com), but behind a paywall accessible only to subscribers.
It speaks for itself.
Mark_Singer@newyorker.com
WTF? We practically wrote the article for you - supplied you with all the information for the article, in the least - and you some bush league sh!t like that?
leg speed wrote:
Holy Moses this is real! I can FINALLY stop following this thread!
^ This.
I say about a month, maybe two, of commenting on the article then we should all petition the BroJo's to lock the thread
I know. Let's release an article involving marathons during the time of year when no one cares about marathons and during the busiest sports week in four years.
Real smart if you don't want anyone to read it.
Zoned wrote:
I know. Let's release an article involving marathons during the time of year when no one cares about marathons and during the busiest sports week in four years.
Real smart if you don't want anyone to read it.
Do you really think anyone who reads the New Yorker would ever care about this story? I doubt it.
Also, it is evident from the preview on the New Yorker website that he doesn't reveal any new info and is just summarizing this thread.
If you don't like the article, why don't you write the article? You won't though.
longed harrier wrote:
WTF? We practically wrote the article for you - supplied you with all the information for the article, in the least - and you some bush league sh!t like that?
Everyone in this thread that worked on digging up evidence should get free access to this article. It would have never happened if it wasn't for the people here.
Thanks Kip
Hope you're having a grand old time because of this
Wow, looks like it's finally here:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/06/120806fa_fact_singer
Anyone have a new yorker subscription?
Well, it looks like Dr. Litton will finally get to retire now that he is going to be a multimillionaire. He'll probably continue to practice free of charge due to his infinite generosity though.