11,000 Runners Disqualified In Mexico Marathon In UNPARALLELED Cheating Scandal

An unprecedented amount of runners DQ'd from the 2023 Mexico marathon.

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[cjcicco]

If you choose to run a marathon why would you then decide to cheat?? No-one is forcing them to run it, even more bizarre being 11k of them!

[Amtcboy]

It has always been this for years in Mexico.
About 3-6k runners cheat.
It’s just now that it reached this level and had to be reported internationally.

[eunicepadilla]

Imagine seeing that...like a whole city cheating at once

[ebutuoyYT]

Mexican marathon runners don’t need a coach, just el coche 😂

[blackbelt]

I'm run marathons and I am slow as never once thought about cheating. Don't want to have a life knowing any of those accomplishments were a lie. What's the point? The medal is nothing compared to the fact that you pushed through the pain of 26.2 miles. Those people will always be losers.

[fee]

dude there was a guy that posted on instagram showing off his finishing time and it was 1:09 LoL! Not only he cheated and was showing off a lie but guys such an ignorant that he was pressuming an impossible time

[timw]

cheating in a marathon is just sad. What kind of low life person do you have to be to cheat at the marathon. To me this is the lowest of the low and these people should be outed and shamed. Its disgusting and kinda shows how the world is going these days people want to get somewhere and they dont care if they have to cheat to do it.

[AfroMuggleKing]

Unless you are top 3, you gain nothing so what's the purpose of cheating here?

[MrTwogiantscoops]

This is totally Bizarre to have 1/3 of the participants cheating.
I can only assume they were locals knowing the public transport and having friends with transport. Maybe it’s the course that’s easy to cheat on or was it a flaky tracking system?
From the title of this video I imagined 11, 000 runners being incorrectly directed the wrong way then were made aware of the mistake but just kept going rather than back tracking and taking the correct route.
I’ll be interested to know that this was actually correct after several weeks investigating. Something sounds fishy.

[jorgedelaparra]

I am Mexican, I live in Mexico City, and it is embarrassing for me what you just brought to light.

[GorgieClarissa]

I ran the tokyo marathon. I was DQ'd because they have one of the most strictest time constaints and everything is based off of gun time, not chip time. It took 45 min to get to the starting line and you needed to hit the 10k mark by 1h30min. so I basically had 45 minutes to run a 10k.... so angry about that stupid race. I was extremely upset and extremely angry. The 10k cutoff is right where the marathon left turn is and then it's an out and back. so you I did not.... but many did.... go under the road where the subway is and pop out on the other side. a lot of people did that and I didn't care. i will never run tokyo again. it was a waste of time, training and money. i could have cheated and took that medal home... but i decided against it. it would always be mocking me on the wal.. not everyone is an ethical runner. i completely understood why so many people cheated in tokyo. thousands and i mean THOUSANDS of people were set up to fail that day. that race, to this day, makes me so angry

[trainwellracewell]

Sad. The worst part is these people cheated on themselves and they have to live with that in their conscience

[elquetzal]

Such a shame for my beautiful country. Hopefully the measures they are taking help to improve the situation. I plan to make that marathon next year as my first marathon amd wouldnt like to have it tainted by a similar experience.

[ShuKatashSam]

Ms Garcia did a 12.4 mile 1:56(9 min mile pace), then managed to to cut that time almost in 1/2 for the last 13.8 miles running it in 1:14. 1:14 is a mighty fast 1/2 marathon+(5.22 pace). Anyone with those types of times/splits, got the boot.

[doravelazquez]

This is horrible 😢 for all of us who had worked soo hard to get to Boston, and they are openly cheating. Thank God they got caught.

[JasonVSKa]

Well on a positive note, it might go on the Guinness Record for the largest amount of cheaters in a marathon.

[keshmo]

It's crazy to take public transit. But I also seen the marathon map and you could have cut miles off just by crossing the street instead of going around a big loop. The route is goofy for a major marathon.

[donfatale]

1 in 3, you say? So basically in line with their professional counterparts then.

[frauhorn]

I saw the course map, there is many out and backs and points where you can cut a whole lot of course if you divert by a few blocks. I would guess most of the cheating was from simple course cutting rather than catching street cars etc

[davkrod]

Someone owes me nearly 3 minutes of my time. That told me absolutely nothing!!!!