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Did Mike Rossi (viral marathon dad) cheat his way into Boston?
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Congratulations to Lets Run and thank you for joining me and others in openly calling Mike Rossi a cheater.
Mike, you have some wonderful options! You can:
1) Sue people like me and Lets Run
2) Train and earn the $10,000 they have put on offer
3) Do all of the above and make a ton of money!
I wish you the best, cheater.
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East Coaster wrote:
There will always be others trying to drag someone down to their level, if a person is at a higher level it's always best to ignore them, due to lack of oxygen they will eventually expire.
You have NO idea how far REAL runners make it in life because of perseverance and work ethic.
So you have NO idea who you are lecturing about "higher level".
NO wonder, you being one of that infamous circle...
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BOOM goes the dynamite!! Great article:
Now, I'm not sure why the Brojo's put in there that they will give him $10k if he runs a 5k in under 20 minutes in the next year??? That is less than a 2 minute improvement on his current 5k. To me, that is crazy of them. All he would have to do is spend 6 months increasing his mileage to about 50 mpw and I'm sure he could get close to 20 minutes, even without any speed work
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Peter Finley wrote:
Congratulations to Lets Run and thank you for joining me and others in openly calling Mike Rossi a cheater.
Mike, you have some wonderful options! You can:
1) Sue people like me and Lets Run
2) Train and earn the $10,000 they have put on offer
3) Do all of the above and make a ton of money!
I wish you the best, cheater.
I'm thinking 4) status quo. is stil an option.
You may be over-estimating the reach of Letsrun.com, Petey.
It's not exactly a respected news media outlet.
Have you seen the other threads here?
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Doubler wrote:
There are many other cheats out there.
...that no one gives a crap about.
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Who gives a crap! wrote:
Doubler wrote:
There are many other cheats out there.
...that no one gives a crap about.
There are a few cheaters whose name is known internationally for their despicable behavior.
Do you run?
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rexthebex wrote:
THIS IS A BAD DAY FOR MIKE!
Yeah sure , lmao !
There is nothing in the article that will make Barb change her mind !
Greatest part about the posting of the article is , it will make all of you finally realize your months of squawking means nothing to anyone except yourselves
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Looks like I picked a good day to come back from vacation and check up on this thread.
Thanks for finally releasing the article, brojos. Better late than never!
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Check your Ritalin ! wrote:
your months of squawking means nothing to anyone except yourselves
What is wrong with a common topic of shared interest?
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Check your Ritalin ! wrote:
rexthebex wrote:
THIS IS A BAD DAY FOR MIKE!
Yeah sure , lmao !
There is nothing in the article that will make Barb change her mind !
Greatest part about the posting of the article is , it will make all of you finally realize your months of squawking means nothing to anyone except yourselves
Agree, won't make jack shit of a difference, it'll generate more posts here and on the new Rossi thread, good for site clicks which is what it's all about.
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This time next month you'll all still be looking for "conclusive evidence" and wondering why your article received zero response by anyone in the news media & Mike's results stand .
The race is over , Mike ran Boston . Those are 2 facts that ARE conclusive . 2 facts more than that article proves.
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Mike is Great ! wrote:
This time next month you'll all still be looking for "conclusive evidence" and wondering why your article received zero response by anyone in the news media & Mike's results stand .
The race is over , Mike ran Boston . Those are 2 facts that ARE conclusive . 2 facts more than that article proves.
Right. Mike is a real winner.
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Peter Finley wrote:
Congratulations to Lets Run and thank you for joining me and others in openly calling Mike Rossi a cheater.
Mike, you have some wonderful options! You can:
1) Sue people like me and Lets Run
2) Train and earn the $10,000 they have put on offer
3) Do all of the above and make a ton of money!
I wish you the best, cheater.
Posted just for you Mike Enjoy wrote:
Cowabunga wrote:
Wow, Mike and his lawyer are going to have their work cut out for them with this fella from the above articles comments: Peter Finley · Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Affairs/Associate Professor at Nova Southeastern University, Huizenga Business School. It's probably the best summation of this whole saga I've come across, make sure you read the whole thing.
Here's an extract from his bio:
"Dr. Finley is the Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Affairs and an associate professor of sport and recreation management in the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship. His areas of specialization include sport ethics, sport law, and the sociology of sport. He has authored numerous scholarly articles on various sport management topics and is a regular presenter at several major international conferences in the field. Dr. Finley was the recipient of the 2008 Huizenga School Excellence in Teaching Award."
http://www.huizenga.nova.edu/Faculty.cfm/pfinley/Awesome, so good I did a full cut and paste so Mike can read it:
(Update: Ken's posted a comment too which Mike will like even less.)
"Peter Finley · Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Affairs/Associate Professor at Nova Southeastern University, Huizenga Business School
What an awesome story! I'm wondering, though, why you didn't cover the rest of it? Your wonder-dad, Mike Rossi, cheated his way into the Boston Marathon.
He posted a qualifying time at the Lehigh Valley Health Network Via Marathon. He took a selfie at the start line, reappeared at the finish line, but was never photographed on the course at any of the photo checkpoints in between. Every runner was photographed multiple times (generally as many as a dozen times at varied locations) but Rossi was never photographed. Time stamps on the photos show that pictures were generally being taken at a rate of one every 1.25 seconds as the runners went past and you can often see the runners in frame and everything for 100 yards behind them. Rossi never showed up along the race route. The odds of him running the marathon and not being photographed have been calculated at close to one in 600,000. At one point, about six miles into the race, 199 of the top 200 runners are clearly photographed. You can guess who was missing and should have been right in the middle of the stream of runners. Lehigh is not a big marathon. Just a few miles into the race the runners have stretched out and getting photographs of everyone (to be sold to the runners later) is very easy. Everyone who ran across that bridge was photographed. Mike Rossi wasn't because he was in a car on the highway at the time.
In addition, Rossi's race history does not support that he has the ability to run a 3:11 marathon. All his previous races indicated he should run between 3:40 and 4:00 (he claims he never tried in ANY race, EVER, until his miracle perfomance at Lehigh). Rossi ran a predictable 4:01 at Boston, where security measures are in place to prevent cheating. Rossi's bragging posts on Twitter and Facebook about previous races do not support that he NEVER tried in ANY previous race.
The race management team at Lehigh declined to disqualify Rossi but left the door open to consider further evidence, should it be made available. It seems they don't believe that his complete absence from photos or his obvious inability to run 3:11 are conclusive. They probably want a witness who saw him leave the course after his "chip" crossed the start line or saw him jump back in just prior to the finish. The running community is angered by this, as it essentially means that a runner is allowed to cheat, provided they are good at it. The race management team did NOT, however, exonerate Mike Rossi. They wrote, "the Marathon committee concluded that while there is data from Rossi’s participation in other racing events indicating that Rossi’s time may not be accurate, there is not conclusive evidence..." and continued, "Therefore the LVHN Via Marathon Committee concluded that Rossi will not be disqualified unless additional conclusive information arises in the future." They also promised "the course will have a minimum of six timing mats - at the start, finish line and four additional on-course locations. In addition, there will be video surveillance of the course at several locations which Via will archive annually." In other words, they don't want to get "Rossied" again.
If you would care to watch the video of Mike Rossi NOT qualifying for the Boston Marathon, you can do so here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGilRGr2GlIOr just watch Rossi NOT cross the bridge within the top 200 runners (he finished 114th), here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxKfEiOfGmYWhether you like the letter to the principal or not, Mike Rossi cheated his way into the Boston Marathon.
And Mike, if you don't like this post, you are welcome to sue me for defamation and I'll crush you in court."
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Mike is Great ! wrote:
This time next month you'll all still be looking for "conclusive evidence" and wondering why your article received zero response by anyone in the news media & Mike's results stand .
The race is over , Mike ran Boston . Those are 2 facts that ARE conclusive . 2 facts more than that article proves.
This is a great reminder that Mike Rossi not only cheated, but he is a POS. Thanks. People get caught up with the cheating aspect and forget that he's a POS.
Mike Rossi is a cheater AND a POS!
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Mike is Great ! wrote:
This time next month you'll all still be looking for "conclusive evidence" and wondering why your article received zero response by anyone in the news media & Mike's results stand .
The race is over , Mike ran Boston . Those are 2 facts that ARE conclusive . 2 facts more than that article proves.
And next month when Mike invites us over for some cheap hotdogs and light beer he can laugh about this all he wants. And we all will be laughing inside!
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No logic wrote:
Mike is Great ! wrote:
This time next month you'll all still be looking for "conclusive evidence" and wondering why your article received zero response by anyone in the news media & Mike's results stand .
The race is over , Mike ran Boston . Those are 2 facts that ARE conclusive . 2 facts more than that article proves.
Right. Mike is a real winner.
Mike wins, again.
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Mikes neighbor wrote:
Mike is Great ! wrote:
This time next month you'll all still be looking for "conclusive evidence" and wondering why your article received zero response by anyone in the news media & Mike's results stand .
The race is over , Mike ran Boston . Those are 2 facts that ARE conclusive . 2 facts more than that article proves.
And next month when Mike invites us over for some cheap hotdogs and light beer he can laugh about this all he wants. And we all will be laughing inside!
You could bring a compass as a present, maybe?
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I hear Ah-nold's accent when this is spoken:..."I'll crush you in court."Mike wins! lol
Reposted just for fun. wrote:
Peter Finley wrote:
And Mike, if you don't like this post, you are welcome to sue me for defamation and I'll crush you in court."
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good reminder wrote:
Mike is Great ! wrote:
This time next month you'll all still be looking for "conclusive evidence" and wondering why your article received zero response by anyone in the news media & Mike's results stand .
The race is over , Mike ran Boston . Those are 2 facts that ARE conclusive . 2 facts more than that article proves.
This is a great reminder that Mike Rossi not only cheated, but he is a POS. Thanks. People get caught up with the cheating aspect and forget that he's a POS.
Mike Rossi is a cheater AND a POS!
....don't 4get to add : SUCCESSFUL cheater & POS that your little LR board & biased article can't prove
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