Doubler wrote:
Ken, now you defamed the Marine by stating AS FACT that he helped Mike cheat. It doesn't matter that you didn't post his name in this instance as his identity is easy to determine for anyone that cares to look.
NO!
All my investigation was done BEHIND THE SCENES. And it was all done via nothing more than Internet searches and Facebook profiles. All just info that is available to anybody who knows how to search for something.
I trusted you, Derek, and YOU POSTED IT ON HERE.
YOU have made the accusations public. If this person finds out and is embarrassed the records will show that YOU posted my accomplice theory and it was your fault. And SarahB posted his name.
To this date I have never posted his name on here.
And for the record - a few others do agree with my theory and when we had the original investigation group we looked at several other people as possible accomplices. There were a few others that might have carried Mike's bib. There were a few that had no bib or altered bibs. And the one runner who got out way ahead of the pack and then disappeared after the half.
This is from the Runners World article from June 22:
The most common methods of cheating are course-cutting and bib-swapping. On some courses, it’s possible to cut off distance on foot, but on others, course-cutting requires the aid of a car, bike, or public transportation. Bib swapping can also take on a variety of forms. Race directors and timers have seen runners get faster athletes to run in their place, runners wearing multiple bibs or chips for the same purpose, and runners splitting up a race (handing off a bib and/or chip midway through).
So why is it so hard for you all to believe Mike wouldn't have somebody carry his bib for him is puzzling. Yeah, I know, there were no mats, blah blah blah. And I'm saying Mike didn't know that and was covering his ass by hiring an accomplice. In the past two months hasn't Mike proved how stupid he is? Why do you give him so much credit about how he cheated?
http://www.runnersworld.com/racing/how-common-is-cheating-at-marathons