Vindication: 2 experts just remeasured the Abu Dhabi Marathon course and found it to be a little less than 200 meters short!

There's indeed every possibility that the official course organizer re-calibrated other cones around the full 42.195km distance to add-back the 195m taken by the fish market, thus leading to a net effect of "0.0".

In this case, the Internet basementers who only glance at split times would be confused, because those numbers would not tally correctly.

Simplest answer is always best wrote:

There's indeed every possibility that the official course organizer re-calibrated other cones around the full 42.195km distance to add-back the 195m taken by the fish market, thus leading to a net effect of "0.0".

In this case, the Internet basementers who only glance at split times would be confused, because those numbers would not tally correctly.

You obviously didn't look at the splits. It's not like one was fast and one was slow. Just one was fast.

Great work to all!

Wanker.

Stuff like this is infuriating. They obviously messed up, even if unintentionally. The case could be laid out plainly within a day of it happening. But it's bad press for the marathon, so they sit on it and hope they can talk about it as little as possible and when nobody is listening. Just be transparent and fix it for next year. Except corporations are involved and it's bad for business to admit mistakes. Things like this really make me appreciate having a free press.

Lllll wrote:

Simplest answer is always best wrote:

There's indeed every possibility that the official course organizer re-calibrated other cones around the full 42.195km distance to add-back the 195m taken by the fish market, thus leading to a net effect of "0.0".

In this case, the Internet basementers who only glance at split times would be confused, because those numbers would not tally correctly.

You obviously didn't look at the splits. It's not like one was fast and one was slow. Just one was fast.

Another non-math whiz.

If one of the splits is "fast" by 0:35s, you can re-distribute this 35 seconds among the other 7 splits as 5s each, and no-one will know the difference, be'cuz a 5k in 15:00 looks just like one in 15:05. The latter would not be termed "slow".

Sure, and the odds they did that without telling anyone for two months are what ? 0.0001%, at best !

They were caught with their pants down and just tried to sit on it. Exactly like the SF Marathon did in 2017 when an idiot put 100 meters of cones for the U-Turn in the second HM (USATF certified) AFTER the marker and not BEFORE so the course was 200 meters LONG. They vaguely admitted to it on their FB book and said they would do the "right thing" if it was a problem for someone to enter a race but that's it, no official communication or apology. Oh they did offer a discount to those who complained for the 2018 race.

Anyway back to Abu Dhabi, the IAAF knew something was wrong from the getgo because they NEVER put anyone's performance in AD on their rankings, as if the race had never existed, you can check Kipserem's and Kiptum's profiles.

Well done LRC !

Wow, you got information from someone else, now you are bragging about "calling it" and want people to know about it. Talk about insecurity and incessant boasting? Go ahead and ban me, no big deal to me.

Once Canova said the times were legit any sane person knew they were the opposite. Canova is a horrible person. A lying cheat.

It’s coming now, for sure. Weldon the Lesser must be quaking in his boots. Will this hurt even more than his two epic failures on the track?

Go Robert!!!