rojo wrote:
Eye for the truth wrote:The strongest ethical arguments are supported by facts. Gross exaggerations only weaken the stance, especially when they can easily be refuted. A quick check of the marathon results show not even one single race with a second half mile pace that is 2-3 mins faster than the first half. Furthermore there wasn't even one race with a pace difference of close to a minute. Those are facts. Not a single person ever said they saw him cheat. That is fact. Eight Bostons in a row without a dq or even a single issue. More facts. His entire family was at these races and confirmed he didn't and couldn't have cheated. That is fact.
Some poor saps that read this misleading stuff or the fiction in the New Yorker may actually think its accurate. The rest of us realize that these accusations have just snowballed into a sensational viral hoax.
Do you work for reputation.com or something? Please stop.
You sound like Holocaust denier. It happened. He cheated. ENd of story.
You write:
Eye for the truth wrote: A quick check of the marathon results show not even one single race with a second half mile pace that is 2-3 mins faster than the first half. Furthermore there wasn't even one race with a pace difference of close to a minute.
That's nnot True. From the New YOrker, the eadwood Mickelson Trail Marathon determined, "that Litton had, improbably, run the second half eleven minutes faster than the first. In addition, he found photographs of Litton only at the start and the end of the course. Deadwood disqualified Litton, and Straughan followed suit in Missoula."
So he was DQd. So please stop lying.
There was even a race that was MADE UP.
I've offered Kip Litton $1000 to simply run a marathon. That offer still stands (he must run it in a LetsRun.com singlet). I'll pay him another $1000 if he breaks 3:30.
http://kiplitton.blogspot.com/http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/06/120806fa_fact_singer?currentPage=allHe never shows up in race photographs. Get over it. He cheated it:
New Yorker wrote:
Exploring the Web sites for each of Litton’s marathons occupied Strode for several days. Not every race was as well documented as Missoula’s, but wherever professional race photographers had been present he hunted for shots of Litton among other runners. He found images of him at the end of a course, only twice at the beginning, and never in between. And there was the chip-gun differential: with rare exceptions, Litton started two to five minutes behind the leaders. In a crowded field, wouldn’t a swift runner want to avoid weaving through clusters of slower runners?
Exploring the Web sites for each of Litton’s marathons occupied Strode for several days. Not every race was as well documented as Missoula’s, but wherever professional race photographers had been present he hunted for shots of Litton among other runners. He found images of him at the end of a course, only twice at the beginning, and never in between. And there was the chip-gun differential: with rare exceptions, Litton started two to five minutes behind the leaders. In a crowded field, wouldn’t a swift runner want to avoid weaving through clusters of slower runners?
Rojo is right and dozens of others have posted the same stuff as well. Kip cheated, period. No one changes shoes, hats, singlets, etc...along the course of a marathon or 10k race (Solstice).
I never met the guy, I am from Michigan, and the evidence of him cheating is overwhelming. I truly believe he will come out one day and admit it...by selling his story as to how he did it (although it's really not that hard to figure out). He's an embarrassment to real runners everywhere. Shame on him.
