Over 250 Runners Were Caught Cheating at Shenzhen Half Marathon

Runner's World ^ | December 1, 2018 | Taylor Dutch

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Did you run it, or were you in the audience. If you ran it, congratulations!

[MV=PY]

"“This happens on a comparable scale at nearly every race where the course provides the opportunity to cut across a street to shave a few miles. Maybe it’s 100 runners, maybe it’s 300,” his post read. “We should stop acting shocked. Until cheating runners have real consequences, there is no deterrent to this behavior.”"

Seriously?

[Godebert]

"And now what happens to their Social Score? They’re SCREWED."

Is there a way for a Chinaman to check his communist Social Score online?

[Pollster1]

237 athletes who cut the course is a lot....I tend to think a few blazed the path and others just followed.....mob mentality.

I wonder if any of those who cut the course were innocent - following the person in front of them. I can imagine getting to mile 18 and my mind is no longer functioning beyond left, then right, then left again (almost like being back in the military).

[BobL]

Maybe “Commissar.com”?

[tired&retired]

Chinese people feel the same about marathon rules as they do about trade laws.

Rules are made for the other guy, not us!

[9YearLurker]

And their businessmen and global, government negotiators too.

It is a very different culture.

[9YearLurker]

You are applying experience informed in an environment of Western ethics to another situation.

[Sirius Lee]

The Chinese don’t have a concept of cheating. There is only gaining advantage by whatever means possible and winning.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maybe, but if there is, checking the score probably lowers it, just like credit scores in the US.