I'm breaking my rule: Second Kip Litton Thread - Can someone please tell me what's up?

Got a mention in Rolling Stone today...

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/flagrant-2-jack-white-and-kobe-bryant-want-you-to-read-more-20140724

Reading the comments after the article it looks like someone by the name of William Rogers is still in denial.

Still in Denial wrote:

Reading the comments after the article it looks like someone by the name of William Rogers is still in denial.

That's exactly like the posts that someone, I'm betting it's Kip himself, keeps putting in this thread.

got a Google alert for Kip Litton today that he is now in his 24th year of dental practice

http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2081706

The guy can't even spell his last name correctly in that article.

He cheated and he knows it. If my name were in a magazine like that, and I knew I was innocent, I'd fight tooth and nail. Yet Dr. Litton...?

I would bet even his friends know he cheated as who changes shoes in a marathon, and an outfit with not one person seeing you do it? Total cheater who got caught. His office workers have to know that what he did makes no sense, none at all. Oh well.

Refund wanted wrote:

I would bet even his friends know he cheated as who changes shoes in a marathon, and an outfit with not one person seeing you do it? Total cheater who got caught. His office workers have to know that what he did makes no sense, none at all. Oh well.

Dan Baxley (Kellogg MBA grad) believes he's innocent for some reason

Bryan Hall wrote:

The guy can't even spell his last name correctly in that article.

True. RollingStone spelled it "Lipton" in one of the paragraphs

Refund wanted wrote:

He cheated and he knows it. If my name were in a magazine like that, and I knew I was innocent, I'd fight tooth and nail. Yet Dr. Litton...?

I would bet even his friends know he cheated as who changes shoes in a marathon, and an outfit with not one person seeing you do it? Total cheater who got caught. His office workers have to know that what he did makes no sense, none at all. Oh well.

My guess is His office workers have an IQ below 90 and/or fear losing their jobs if anything is said.

What if Kip took the Lance Armstrong approach and threatened to sue everyone? Would this story be so big?

Isn't that what the world record multiple marathoner's in another thread did and successfully stopped all dialog and speculation?

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5882052

I'm just wondering if Kip had threatened defamation right away if this story would be so big?

hypothetical question wrote:

What if Kip took the Lance Armstrong approach and threatened to sue everyone? Would this story be so big?

Isn't that what the world record multiple marathoner's in another thread did and successfully stopped all dialog and speculation?

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5882052

I'm just wondering if Kip had threatened defamation right away if this story would be so big?

For most part Kip avoided everyone and provided bullshit emails. Singer showed up at Kip's dental office the day after the 2012 Boston Marathon and Kip told one of his workers it's a trespasser and to call the police (see New Yorker article for details)

guano wrote:

Got a mention in Rolling Stone today...

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/flagrant-2-jack-white-and-kobe-bryant-want-you-to-read-more-20140724

Wow, this is good. I'd say it was more than just a mention - of his three favorite articles, the story outing Kip is #1.

And, he calls a spade a spade: "...a pathological liar..."

"A Dentist, a Scientific Study and Kobe

If there's one sports related piece you should read, it would be "Marathon Man" by Mark Singer. It's the complicated story of Kip Litton, a dentist from Michigan who seems to go through painstaking details to cheat his way to the top of the marathon runner rankings.

Singer spends the piece building up the evidence again Lipton, exposing a pathological liar with the desire to keep things secret from everyone. The marathon community was in an uproar over Lipton, and there are even blogs tracking his whereabouts and suspicions stemming from photographic evidence from the marathons he supposedly participated in."

My guess is His office workers have an IQ below 90 and/or fear losing their jobs if anything is said.[/quote]

You may be right, but I doubt it. Anyone with an IQ of at least 89 should be able to figure it out. If I worked there, I'd have a hard time looking at him without laughing out loud. The guy cheated to the nth degree.

Achtung Baby wrote:

My guess is His office workers have an IQ below 90 and/or fear losing their jobs if anything is said.

You may be right, but I doubt it. Anyone with an IQ of at least 89 should be able to figure it out. If I worked there, I'd have a hard time looking at him without laughing out loud. The guy cheated to the nth degree.[/quote]

How many does he have working under him? Maybe a phone secretary, and a couple hygienists? What's it like working for a fraud?

Office in the works wrote:

Achtung Baby wrote:

My guess is His office workers have an IQ below 90 and/or fear losing their jobs if anything is said.

You may be right, but I doubt it. Anyone with an IQ of at least 89 should be able to figure it out. If I worked there, I'd have a hard time looking at him without laughing out loud. The guy cheated to the nth degree.

How many does he have working under him? Maybe a phone secretary, and a couple hygienists? What's it like working for a fraud?[/quote]

Dan Baxley couldn't figure it out

Tough situation for Annette Lloyd (facebook worker of Kip) to be in?

When will this clown come clean?

hypothetical question wrote:

What if Kip took the Lance Armstrong approach and threatened to sue everyone? Would this story be so big?

Isn't that what the world record multiple marathoner's in another thread did and successfully stopped all dialog and speculation?

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5882052

I'm just wondering if Kip had threatened defamation right away if this story would be so big?

No, that thread just ran out of steam, it happens, unlike this one. Kip should just come clean and everyone would forget about it and just get on with their boring lives (until the next cheat comes along).

I'm Bored wrote:

No, that thread just ran out of steam, it happens, unlike this one. Kip should just come clean and everyone would forget about it and just get on with their boring lives (until the next cheat comes along)

Ah, I doubt that' actually happens. People here seem to have a raging hard on for kip. That one thread has like 5000 posts, and now this one is nearing 1000 posts. And there were at least 2-3 threads about him with 2-300 posts that were deleted before the 5000+ post thread was created.

kip litton may be the most talked about person in lrc history, ie, he may have more posts about him than any other athlete. He's got roughly ~6500 posts about him. Not bad for an IRL troll.