Serial Cheater at Marine Corps Marathon?

There are three people on my Facebook feed this morning defending this guy. They are linking to the RW story and calling the decision unfair and complaining that the MCM will deter runners from signing up for future races. One person wrote "Is this how you treat your customers?" Hahaha.

name hijackers are the worst wrote:

Everybody was under the assumption that VIA would make the obvious correct decision and DQ Rossi.

Then, the LVM put out their statement, which made it clear that zero investigation had actually occurred and they were taking the easy way out. That's when the sh*t hit the fan - both here as well as on Facebook.

You forgot to mention they were threatened with legal action by Rossi. He called their bluff with a letter from his retired lawyer Grimes and did the same to the Brojos. It worked and he had them both running scared, all credit to Ken for exposing the sham and counteracting by calling Rossi's bluff.

MCM Price hasn't threatened legal action and wouldn't have a leg to stand on anyway.

Gottem!

http://www.runnersworld.com/races/marine-corps-marathon-issues-lifetime-ban-to-runner?cid=soc_Running%20Times%20Magazine%20-%20RunningTimesMagazine_FBPAGE_Runner%E2%80%99s%20World__News

Sorry for the 'old' information. I was cutting through the thread and didn't hit all the posts.

And MCM Price in his RW expose picture is wearing the tell-tale sign of most accused cheaters - a Boston Marathon hat.

Price Admits to Cheating!!!

It also shows how we dilettante runners are so vain that nothing but the marathon is a running race.

It's possible that he could have competed fairly and effectively at another, shorter distance...

But, he just couldn't breakaway from that Boston cult.

And no non-runner would ever ask him in a store someplace whether he raced in 10K's.

“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.”

Price said he called Nealis on Friday to offer an apology. 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.”

I must admit it is refreshing to hear him take responsibility and fess up. I give him points for not coming up with some denial.

No its him. He's also a dead beat dad

You wrote: "There may have been one or two polite posts on Facebook, asking when they would make their decision on Rossi known, but the tone was 100% civil towards them."Right. Judging by the temper of your group and the tone of your post here ("F-off, user name stealer!"), I can only imagine what you mean with "civil". Lol. Just on p. 195/6 one finds these five comments wrt FB:

Conclusion: you "detectives" sabotaged a clear slam-dunk case. Probably half of you were Mike and his DJ buddies as double agents. Lol.

If you do a story on this guy Gregory Jerome Price 61 yes. Please include he has a 15 yr old daughter who he hasn't seen since she was 6 she lives in the Washington DC area. Dead beat dad.

Greg Chrisman wrote:

And MCM Price in his RW expose picture is wearing the tell-tale sign of most accused cheaters - a Boston Marathon hat.

And the other, dark/black clothing when in cheating mode, a 'la Mike Rossi and Kip Litton, they think it makes them invisible.

Lele wrote:

If you do a story on this guy Gregory Jerome Price 61 yes. Please include he has a 15 yr old daughter who he hasn't seen since she was 6 she lives in the Washington DC area. Dead beat dad.

Please tell me this is NOT true. If it is, wow, what a stunning turn of events.

The name stealer has been creating numerous accounts on the Rossi thread, replacing the letter 'l' with capital 'i's. It's juvenile, pathetic and not in the slightest bit funny.Like I said, nobody was saying anything negative about the VIA marathon on their Facebook page, prior to their decision. I cite Facebook and you respond by quoting posts from the thread. Nice reading comprehension.The only posts on Facebook prior to the decision that I can recall were ones asking when they were going to release their decision and, earlier, one or two people emailed the race a summary of the evidence against Rossi. Probably less than half a dozen people in total posted to VIA's Facebook prior to the decision. If you can find a post on their wall that predates their decision and is openly critical of the race organizers, feel free to post it and prove me wrong. If you find anything, I would guess that they appear after the deadline that VIA set for making a decision on Rossi. Still, I doubt that you'll find anything.The Letsrun quotes that you selected from pages 195 and 196 are hardly overly harsh towards VIA. I don't feel like going back through the Rossi thread, but I suspect that they come at a point where it was becoming increasingly clear that the race committee was trying to avoid responding to the issue. They had been given all of the relevant information about Rossi's cheating many days, if not several weeks prior and had promised to release a statement by the end of the month. If I recall correctly, the marathon finally released its statement several days into the new month (later than they had promised). I also seem to recall that they released it on a Friday evening so that it would hopefully bypass the news agencies. Correct me if I'm wrong on any of this. Prior to the statement, the only criticism levelled at VIA on this thread was that it was rather unprofessional for a Boston-qualifier race to not have any timing mats along the course, apart from the start and finish. After the non-DQ, VIA became a target for criticism - both on the forum, as well as other social media - and justifiably so.Hope that clears things up for you.

name hijackers are the worst wrote:

The name stealer has been creating numerous accounts on the Rossi thread, replacing the letter 'l' with capital 'i's. It's juvenile, pathetic and not in the slightest bit funny.

Like I said, nobody was saying anything negative about the VIA marathon on their Facebook page, prior to their decision. I cite Facebook and you respond by quoting posts from the thread. Nice reading comprehension.

The only posts on Facebook prior to the decision that I can recall

Blah, blah, blah,...yudder, yudder, yudder,.. Who gives a rats arse, go away.

yeah stop taking up humungous space on the thread with bs no one is interested in

name hijackers are the worst wrote:

Like I said, nobody was saying anything negative about the VIA marathon on their Facebook page, prior to their decision. I cite Facebook and you respond by quoting posts from the thread. Nice reading comprehension.

Ah no, you misunderstood those quotes. They were directly related to facebook posts from the Rossi Hate Group in May, encouraging each other to "create more pressure" on facebook to get a DQ - go to pages 195/6 and see for yourself. Or not. The Rossi stuff is water down the bridge anyways.

MCM Price is okay in my book. His version of what happened seem sincere and he made his amends. The damage is minuscule except for that accidental age group placement. It is not the end of the world. He is not a delusional liar like Kip and Rossi.

I do wonder if Troy University Greg Price figured out that he has been outed on LR. Him I think will go along the line of Kip and Rossi. Nobody comes off telling epic stories like that without a lot of practice and denial.

Good work.

No one wanted to be overly critical because they thought Via would do the right thing b/c the evidence was so overwhelming. Little did they know the RD Barb McKeever - a hobby jogger extraordinaire - was completely incompetent and Via would be given a pass by Bart Yasso.