respect the playa wrote:
No doubt he's a long term cheater, but with who & how? wrote:
The question now is who was his accomplice and what did they use to get between jump out and jump in points?
If he is cheating, which looks likely, he is very good at it. He's not like the cheaters who miss lots of mats and record sub 4 minute mile paces in between.
I'd say he's OK at cheating, but not "very good". If he was very good, he wouldn't have left so many clues. To earn the title of "very good cheater", you should be able to always post believable splits, never miss timing mats, never get caught being naughty on camera, etc.
Good job doubler. I feel that this thread had way more than enough information to destroy any possibility of Meza's times being legit in my own mind. But the article put it in a nice, professional format that does away with the need to analyze a trove of split times, course profiles, etc. It encapsulates the evidence well and doesn't take hours of reading. The zoom photos were beautiful. I would assume this would be enough to get him DQ'd, but at the same time, I don't know how these things work. Maybe it's harder than I think for a race organization to actually DQ a runner for cheating. But the most important thing to me is that anybody that actually cares about running, and knows the tiniest bit about the sport, will be able to tell Meza cheated. Ideally there will eventually be some justice for the true age division champs at the races where Meza stole from them. I hope some of them somehow become aware of this finding.