Forrest Child wrote:
I don't care who you are, and won't bother to even narrow it down to whether you are 3+hour marathoner, or sub 2:20 one. Neither do I care about the times of your pals. Nobody cares, except their closest friends and family. It's just a hobby for them, and it should stay as such. No need to out anyone, but that is up to you. Ho got caught and got punished. That's fine.
Your mission is far beyond your powers and the fact that you pursue this matter so passionately, only shows your character that you like to wallow in someone else's misery,
We have witnessed a couple years ago a suicide by a guy who got caught cheating (repeatedly) at running races. Would you be happy if this case ended like that? Would you finally feel like human trash then? Do you think that you would be better a person than those cheaters?
We agree on the first paragraph for sure, though naturally I care about my pals training hard, and potentially having positions stolen not by the better man, but the better cheat. Again though, this was mentioned in previous post.
As I mentioned earlier, I abhor violence, so would hardly want any physical harm, inflicted by others or upon themselves to result. Male suicide is at frightening levels, and I am not wanting anybody to feel driven to such lengths. However, people do need to be called out for unacceptable behaviour. I can guarantee if he came out and admitted this publicly, then as stated earlier he could likely regain some respect.
The more he denies this, regardless of my powers of discipline (of which I have none!), I mean it when I say with no hint of malice that the whispering will follow him at each races and within his training sessions. As you rightly mention, he is clearly guilty (or words to that effect), so he needs to really cut his losses and not behave like this is false or an injustice.
I think sometimes tone and context is lost in the written word, but whilst I am glad cheating is exposed, there is no malice towards him or his family strictly beyond the cheating. Honestly in an ideal world I would prefer he just own up, and we can then move on, with the open knowledge of what he/they have done, and the regret for cheating a just consequence.
I genuinely hope that happens.
You are free to write whatever you want, just remember, each action has its consequences, even if unintentional. Your pursuit of public shaming is beyond ridiculous, it's malicious.