Did Mike Rossi (viral marathon dad) cheat his way into Boston?

I give Price credit for coming clean, but it did take the DQ to make that happen. Cheater Mike Rossi is several orders of magnitude worse in the way he has attacked and deceived so many.

Reg Fields wrote:

And I bet the Price cheating gets dropped now for the most part since he fessed up.

somebloke wrote:

PICS FROM THE ROCKY RUN

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It looks like his foot pod that he always used to wear has gone and it's hard to tell with the sleeves but I can't see any sign of his usual watch? He really needs to see someone about his running form if he ever wants to beat his marathon PR :)

iiagdtr wrote:

I give Price credit for coming clean, but it did take the DQ to make that happen.

He admitted to it, but not fully.

He said he’d been a runner for most of his adult life but in recent years as his body struggled to make it 26.2 miles, he still fancied himself a marathon runner.

“I feel bad,” he said. “There’s no great backstory to it. It’s just wrong. I haven’t been feeling that well, didn’t do the proper training. Now, at the end of the day, what do I have? Nothing.”

He downplays it by making it sound like he was just doing it to get to the finish since he still identifies as a marathon runner (trans-marathoner!). He was using his cheat time to get into the Boston Marathon.

Sounded like he did to me: “I messed up. There’s no reason to do that,” he said. “There’s really nothing else to say. There’s not a good explanation. I apologize to all the other runners.”You think the cheater Mike Rossi would ever say as much?

theREALsmokingGunner wrote:

"Perhaps most famously, a runner named Rosie Ruiz was the top woman finisher in the 1980 Boston Marathon but later was stripped of her title when race officials ruled that she didn’t complete the entire course. More recently, marathoners Mike Rossi and Kip Litton have been exposed through diligent Internet sleuthing and scorned by message board users."

Rossi is going to come unhinged when he reads that. Wait for the comments on that article to become Pro-Rossi!

Loofa Dog wrote:

theREALsmokingGunner wrote:

"Perhaps most famously, a runner named Rosie Ruiz was the top woman finisher in the 1980 Boston Marathon but later was stripped of her title when race officials ruled that she didn’t complete the entire course. More recently, marathoners Mike Rossi and Kip Litton have been exposed through diligent Internet sleuthing and scorned by message board users."

Rossi is going to come unhinged when he reads that. Wait for the comments on that article to become Pro-Rossi!

All of the signed by a fat fingered guy who replaces an "i" with a lower case "l".

printer wrote:

*****NEWSFLASH*****

The Washington Post has come out and called Mike Rossi a marathon cheater. Yup, as much as he wants to deny it, he's labeled for life.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/marine-corps-marathon-bans-runner-who-appears-to-have-cut-corners/2015/11/20/c05ef754-8f41-11e5-934c-a369c80822c2_story.html

---ATTENTION ROSSI---ATTENTION ROSSI---ATTENTION ROSSI---ATTENTION ROSSI---

****NEWSFLASH*****NEWSFLASH*****NEWSFLASH*****NEWSFLASH*****

See comments and Washington Post link above.

(I know it's douchey using caps and bold but I want to make sure our tough talking hero sees it)

Rossi, this is from your Twitter:

"Mike Rossi ‏@mikerossi22 · Nov 11  Pennsylvania, USA

Thank you to all who have served #VeteransDay"

These are from the comments at the bottom of the Washington Post article that mentions you as a cheat and which apply equally to you:

"Runs on Plants 9:55 AM GMT+1000

Says he's a serial cheater on Marine Corps and ran Boston multiple times. Likely he cheated his way into Boston and displaced legitimate qualifiers more than once.

FactBasedDiscussion 9:37 AM GMT+1000

He cheated. Marines hate cheaters.

Marines hate those that don't own up to their cheating more than they hate cheaters.

Liar. Cheater. Worthless shxxxxxxxxxx"

So save your platitudes about the veterans for some other cause, veterans don't want them from the likes of you.

Mike thinks the platitudes for law enforcement and the military would generate support and defense for his narcissism.When realized they are/were played for his personal benefit they should look into the details of his cheating. No one wants to be a fool and Mike believes he has fooled them.

PhiI McCrackin wrote:

Rossi, this is from your Twitter:

"Mike Rossi ‏@mikerossi22 · Nov 11  Pennsylvania, USA

Thank you to all who have served #VeteransDay"

These are from the comments at the bottom of the Washington Post article that mentions you as a cheat and which apply equally to you:

"Runs on Plants 9:55 AM GMT+1000

Says he's a serial cheater on Marine Corps and ran Boston multiple times. Likely he cheated his way into Boston and displaced legitimate qualifiers more than once.

FactBasedDiscussion 9:37 AM GMT+1000

He cheated. Marines hate cheaters.

Marines hate those that don't own up to their cheating more than they hate cheaters.

Liar. Cheater. Worthless shxxxxxxxxxx"

So save your platitudes about the veterans for some other cause, veterans don't want them from the likes of you.

Yes, he admitted to it and probably won't be doing it again. Sure, he only admitted to it because he got caught, but still, he did admit to it. Not even the legendary Rosie Ruiz has done that. In a month or so, no one will care about Greg Price, which is probably fine with him. If Rosie Ruiz had done the same thing, she wouldn't be the world's most famous cheater 36 years later.

Rossi's last two tweets are just freaking bizzare. He really thinks he is going to be some kind of biblical hero if he runs a sub 20:00 5K?

Maybe the Brojos should cough up the money, Mike needs a good psychologist. Consider it a charity donation.

I actually believe he can break 20 minutes on a USATF certified 5k course. I just don't believe he can do it without cheating. I believe he can find a certified course with enough twists and turns, visual obstructions, an appropriate field size, and hiding places so that he can run any time he wants to. How much research did it take to target LVM as his "qualifier?" When did he figure out there were no intermediate chip mats, and the fact that you could just drive parallel to the entire course? How much thought did he put into his hiding place and point of re-entry? To collect GPS data, he can just hand his phone or Garmin off to a "ringer."

If he wants this to be legitimate, he will invite witnesses to watch him do it in person. He will ask someone to follow him the entire time with a video camera. Let's face it, with all the sub-17 5k runners here, it wouldn't be much of a challenge for one of them to run 19 minutes while holding a video camera. Or better yet, he'll invite someone to shoot video of him doing it on a track.

Loofa Dog wrote:

Rossi's last two tweets are just freaking bizzare. He really thinks he is going to be some kind of biblical hero if he runs a sub 20:00 5K?

Maybe the Brojos should cough up the money, Mike needs a good psychologist. Consider it a charity donation.

"Mike Rossi ‏@mikerossi22 · 40m40 minutes ago  Pennsylvania, USA

As nice as she is on the air....is the complete opposite of you. Nasty, pasty, phony, FAKE!"

WTF is this all about, is he losing it?, is he having a shot at Cecily Tynan again, the person he would love to be like and be as popular as?

You're right, freaking totally bizzare.

8:20 PM - 20 Nov 2015 · Details

PhiI McCrackin wrote:

Loofa Dog wrote:

Rossi's last two tweets are just freaking bizzare. He really thinks he is going to be some kind of biblical hero if he runs a sub 20:00 5K?

Maybe the Brojos should cough up the money, Mike needs a good psychologist. Consider it a charity donation.

"Mike Rossi ‏@mikerossi22 · 40m40 minutes ago  Pennsylvania, USA

As nice as she is on the air....is the complete opposite of you. Nasty, pasty, phony, FAKE!"

WTF is this all about, is he losing it?, is he having a shot at Cecily Tynan again, the person he would love to be like and be as popular as?

You're right, freaking totally bizzare.

8:20 PM - 20 Nov 2015 · Details

I have no idea... It will probably get deleted at some point.

Cecily tweeted " fess up, come clean and learn from your mistake (and don't do it again)" about 15 minutes before our heroes tweet. Funny how he doesn't reply on her comment but just on his feed. That really takes courage, From a 13 year old girl .

PhiI McCrackin wrote:

Loofa Dog wrote:

Rossi's last two tweets are just freaking bizzare. He really thinks he is going to be some kind of biblical hero if he runs a sub 20:00 5K?

Maybe the Brojos should cough up the money, Mike needs a good psychologist. Consider it a charity donation.

"Mike Rossi ‏@mikerossi22 · 40m40 minutes ago  Pennsylvania, USA

As nice as she is on the air....is the complete opposite of you. Nasty, pasty, phony, FAKE!"

WTF is this all about, is he losing it?, is he having a shot at Cecily Tynan again, the person he would love to be like and be as popular as?

You're right, freaking totally bizzare.

8:20 PM - 20 Nov 2015 · Details

When you are mentioned as a cheat in a paper as big as the Washington Post, you've been outed.

Mike is still in a desperate battle in his head, trying to convince himself people believe him. He knows he lost that battle but he's still in the rage phase.

Multivitamin wrote:

If he wants this to be legitimate, he will invite witnesses to watch him do it in person. He will ask someone to follow him the entire time with a video camera. Let's face it, with all the sub-17 5k runners here, it wouldn't be much of a challenge for one of them to run 19 minutes while holding a video camera. Or better yet, he'll invite someone to shoot video of him doing it on a track.

Good points. I volunteer.

Cecily previously tweeted a link to the Washington Post article with following quote:"Interesting article on how NOT to get to a marathon finish line. #noshortcuts Even mentions a local course-cutter"

RunDriveRun wrote:

Cecily tweeted " fess up, come clean and learn from your mistake (and don't do it again)" about 15 minutes before our heroes tweet. Funny how he doesn't reply on her comment but just on his feed. That really takes courage, From a 13 year old girl .

Well. The challenge was made to prove that he cheated at Via. Then, if he wins the challenge, won't that clear his name to the undecided?

dgunthert wrote:

This is where I'm at. Given the shape he seems to be in and based on his times, I think he could definitely hit the 3:25 mark. Sure, the massive increase in training volume and decrease in weight he would need to achieve to pull it off would be that much more evidence that his 3:11 and Via is complete bullshit, but the net result is that this craptastic douchebag still earns $10k for proving that he cheated to get into Boston.