kmaclam wrote:
Kind of crazy that the medal displayed most prominently by his family for the world to see (and perhaps lead us to believe he didn't cheat) is the one from 2016 CIM. The exact race he was DQ'ed at (for a 2nd time) and the race that caused them to ban him for life. You can't make this stuff up. Truth is stranger than fiction. And whatever the family needs to keep telling themselves to get through this horrific loss is fine, but to go after Derek or LetsRun is not right.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/06/us/marathon-controversy-frank-meza-death/index.html
His son seems to know something about running as he claims in the CNN article that his dad could string together 6 min miles and was running 100 miles per week.
"His son, Dr. Francisco Meza, said he would sometimes train with his father. He said the elder Meza would often clock 6-minute miles and run 100 miles a week while preparing for marathons.
'When he was doing time trials ... you can't keep up with him. If I knew he was time-trialing that day, I wouldn't run with him, because it was' futile trying to keep up, the younger Meza said." -
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/06/us/marathon-controversy-frank-meza-death/index.html