Nah wrote:
Nice, but I'm still not impressed or certain. I need more.
Either trolling or intensely stupid, or both.
You do not need the FBI to investigate this , just the one split, 15km to 20km in LAM as shown unequivocally by Derek, where he is visibly entering the course at 18.7km, proves that it was physically impossible for him to have run that 5km segment in the split time, with the stoppage.
Further, the video evidence of him prior to entering the course just 125 to 130m before the 25km mat again shows a physical impossibility of running that 5km segment in the recorded split time.
I could show you the maths, but I guess it will be wasted on you.
Now, that is the maths and the actual video evidence, however without all of that, as a former RD of small to major races, a coach of sub 3 hr runners, having run marathons for over 40 yrs, and still attempting to run under 3 hrs at my age (3:15 is 'comfortable'), I know what a sub 3hr marathoner looks like especially at 60 or 70 and I know 'how' a sub 3 hr marathoner runs (form), and I know what it takes to run one.
If I was the RD and had seen him cross the line (because you know who your gun runners are in race), I would have immediately called BS and asked the timer to investigate and would have had his result immediately red flagged as a 'pending publication'. There would be no presumption of so called innocence , this is not a murder trial. There would be onus to show me that a man in such shape can run the time he alleges without having had vehicular assistance.
And from experience as a timer, I would have likewise not authenticated his result for publication or record purposes.
For the LAM RD not to take any action by now, shows that they are either rank amateurs that have never run a marathon, or they do not care about their credibility and the credibility of any time run on their course, and so why would anyone go and run there.
Just run a random training run in your own neighbourhood and say that's your marathon time, it has the same credibility.