Posted on 05/13/2016 7:50:37 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
North Korean Marathon Runners Accused Of Cheating During Race To Qualify For Olympics
May 11, 2016 8:35 PM
PYONGYANG, North Korea (CBSNewYork) — Two North Korean marathon runners are accused of cheating during a race to qualify for the Olympics.
South African athletes manager Dewald Steyn told Race Results Weekly that Ra Hyon-ho and Ri Kwang-bom cut the course during the Mangyongdae Prize Pyongyang Marathon North Korea to hit the Olympic qualifying time of 2:19:00 set by the International Association of Athletics Federations.
Ra finished fourth at 2:15:45, while Ri came in fifth at 2:16:25 during the April 10 marathon.
“This year I again managed a team of athletes from Africa with my son as co-manager,” Steyn told Race Results Weekly. “I was stationed at the 30-kilometer refreshment station while my son was stationed at the 35-kilometer refreshment point.”
Steyn continued, “At 35 kilometers the lead group was still the same, but [Cephas] Pasipamire joined them. The rest was still the same and my son reported that my Africa team had six athletes in the top 10.”
Pak Chol-gwang of North Korea, Ketema Bekele Negassa of Ethiopia and Morris Murethi Mwange of Kenya finished first, second and third. However, as Race Results Weekly reported, Ra and Ri finished fourth and fifth, despite never passing Kelvin Pangiso of Zimbabwe or Pasipamire on the course.
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What’s the big deal....Kim Jong-Il once completed a marathon in less than an hour, and that was right after hitting 18 holes-in-one in a round of golf.
Commies and lies. Hand and glove.
Rosie Ruiz on the MTA
Huh, how bizarre.. Another report says a North Korean won the April 10th marathon... http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-04-19/i-traveled-north-korea-run-pyongyang-marathon-and-it-was-fine
Why don’t they give these guys RFID tags or transponders and have them run through gates on the course? It’d be just like open road tollway billing. Then there would be no question of cheating.
To tell you the truth, their whole government is out to cheat their way into Olympics, and there is little we can do to stop them except disqualifying the entire N. Korean team.
The Ted Cruz Olympics.
Put a couple of Kim’s hungry dogs behind them and lets see their shortened times.
The NK Marathon official result is: Winner Kim Jong-un in a world record time of 15 minutes.
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