In 2017, 6,000 runners were disqualified for cheating, while 3,000 were punished in 2018.
The race is one of 38 races this year to hold World Athletics Gold Label Status, which is recognition from the international governing body that indicates it has passed strict criteria for excellence in planning and management.
Hector Garibay Flores, a Bolivian runner, won the marathon in a record 2:08:23, beating the previous mark by more than two minutes.
Celestine Chepchirchir from Kenya won the women’s race in 2:27:17.
Roberto Madrazo, a former Mexican Presidential candidate who was caught cheating at the 2007 Berlin Marathon, said he thought the 11,000 people who were disqualified for cheating were innocent.
“Your program should know that not everyone who signs up for a marathon intends to finish it; many take advantage of the route and logistic support for their training,” Madrazo wrote on X. “I know this because I have participated in 65 marathons.”
Wow I was unaware so many democrats ran marathons. And let me guess: Anyone who protests this will be indicted for interfering in a marathon.
Unless you were competitive, whats the point in cheating in a marathon? So you can brag to your friends that you ran it in 3:30 instead of 4:00? Makes no sense at all. I think they had some faulty equipment.
Doesn’t make them sound like a great people, does it?
Were their names Rosie Ruiz?
Great event? They're running...This is not big deal except for the leftist soy boys.
And they expected people in Mexico to obey the rules?
Bewahahahahah
Pure jackassery gibberish...
This is cheating just to cheat. It’s raging narcissism. It’s pretty pathetic to get a kick out of it.
As a national culture, they have no respect for our laws, our rules or our borders. Why should it come as any surprise that they have no respect for their laws, rules, culture or borders
All cultures are not equal. Europeans didn’t cut that hearts out of hundreds of thousands of people to sacrifice them to Gods. Everything you see, taste, smell, every piece of technology, medicine, space, computer,
Agriculture and home development can be directly traced
They were easily IDd by the XX on their bibs.
Do they get a participation trophy? I mean they did participate to a certain extent, right?
Celestine Chepchirchir from Kenya won the women’s race in 2:27:17.
Tell me again how women are physically equal to men. I'm still having trouble understanding it ...
[in Spanish] “What do you mean, I’m disqualified? I just set the new world record of an hour and ten minutes!”
Is it a performance enhancer to have someone dress as a US border patrolman and chase them through the race?
Rulz?
We don’t need no stinkin’ rulz.
Just wait until the US really becomes New Mexico.
Dairy Queened?
[The newspaper reported the runners were disqualified after missing checkpoints placed every five kilometers.]
Is it O.K. if I were to take a car ride for 4.98 kilometers, check-in and then be driven to the next checkpoint?
I promise to install a custom car horn and have the car horn play “La Cucaracha” between checkpoints.....
11,000 cheating Mexicans? Wow! That’s new.
...only 14 men eventually completed the race: one after hitchhiking, one after taking a nap, and one—the eventual gold medalist—after drinking strychnine mixed with raw egg and brandy.
Their own performance enhancer was being chased by a pack of wild dogs. Literally. If they ran them like that today, I'd watch.