can we all agree wrote:
Can we all agree that if there wasn't something fishy going on this would be super easy to clear up? this is like the type of smokescreens you'd expect from lance. is dean the lance of running???
Now that he's been disqualified, whoever might have seen him cut the course (if he did cut the course) has no reason to come forward. Dean's already been punished about as much as he can be for this, and whoever goes on record saying that they saw Dean cut the course would have to endure his wrath, for no particular reason other than to make a point that most people already agree on: he's there to ham it up and put on a show, not to compete in any serious way.
Probably most telling in all of this is that they went from accepting his gun time (and basically taking the race "ambassador" at his word that he ran the full course), to disqualifying him (implicitly saying that they don't trust his word anymore). Doubtful that that would happen unless somebody saw and reported something fishy.
But in any case, if this is the sort of thing that is becoming habitual for him, now that he's getting older and it's getting tougher for him to break 4 hours in a marathon, people are going to be more aware of this behavior as a result of this discussion, and eventually, he'll get caught in a situation where he has no plausible excuses. (Unless, like Lance should have, he quits first . . .)