Matt Choi's brother with an e-bike on the NYC 'thon course

Sticky bottle (cycling trick to get pulled by a car up a hill) on the Queensborough is the most hilarious outcome from this scandal. Dude had to cheat his way to a sub-3.

Word on the street is NYRR is going to ban him.

What will Choi Boi do when he banned from all races? Become a model?

Any thoughts if he can be banned from major events for the next little while here so he learns to play by the rules?

I am also a big trust funder. Mommy and daddy pay for my Austin life.

It’s true. Now I got steroids to take and photos to edit.

I believe this is the same magazine that broke the Camille Herron/Wikipedia story. We need more running journalists like these ones.

Ironic that douche bag Choi from Runna is the same app that Quigley is on too

ironic but not unexpected really... Anya Culling, the British influencer with the world's worst spray tan, is on it too.

This guy has to be the biggest tool of all time. I’m assuming that his followers are massive tools themselves/aspiring run influencers. Either way, collectively, people need to stop supporting any brands that do business with this person. I’ve never seen so much spectacle for such an unimpressive dude. I unfortunately looked at some of his reels that show him giving staged interviews and he’s saying absolutely nothing. It’s all around sad. Runfluencers are spewing the most vapid, superficial nonsense. They are the real estate agents of the running world- bottom feeders who provide zero value with the sole intention of enriching themselves.

SAY IT LOUDER

“After a review and due to violations of World Athletics rules, and New York Road Runners’ Code of Conduct and Rules of Competition, NYRR has disqualified Matt Choi from the 2024 TCS New York City Marathon and removed him from the results. He has been banned from any future NYRR races.”

This is well deserved.

Runna just announced that they are terminating their relationship with Choi over this incident.

Thank you. This made my day.

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It takes no work to break 3 hours.

What’s the point belittling people’s achievements? Sub 3 is a great achievement for most runners, build people up and motivate them, rather than knock them down

This is the internet. Not reality. Most people here don’t even run.

Hi everyone,

Josh here - COO at Runna. Wanted to provide a quick update below.

Thanks all of your messages and emails. I want to be clear that this was not something that we at Runna knew was going to happen, or support as a company, and we have decided to terminate our relationship with Matt effective immediately.

As some of you have highlighted Ben (co-founder) had agreed to run alongside Matt to the finish, pacing him to a sub-3, and we had licensed photographers stationed throughout the course, so we (and Ben in particular) were particularly upset and taken by surprise that his production crew joined on the course. Ben assumed that they had been given official media licences given they were on the course and wearing high vis.

Our ethos and entire mission is about inspiring and supporting runners around the world on and off the race course, and so we are deeply uncomfortable with what happened on Sunday.

We’ve also since found out that Matt has done this before which was not something that we knew about and which was an oversight on our part - we are going to improve our ambassador screening processes as a result.

We expect all of our ambassadors and entire community to adhere to race safety rules and respect the safety of other athletes. Running should be for everyone. We will ensure nothing like this happens again, and thank you for your patience. We really value you sharing your feedback.

I also understand this has taken a while to respond on our part - we wrapped up our pop-up in NYC yesterday, had a full day of podcast recording and then flew back last night meanwhile the team in the UK were offline.

Happy to respond to questions in this thread - we don't have a fancy PR department it's just me! But I will share the above response with the team so that we can be replying to concerned runners and Runnas on Instagram etc too.