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  • Over 250 Runners Were Caught Cheating at Shenzhen Half Marathon

    12/01/2018 7:36:21 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 29 replies
    Runner's World ^ | December 1, 2018 | Taylor Dutch
    A half marathon in China made international news for all the wrong reasons: Hundreds of participants were caught cheating at the Shenzhen Half Marathon on November 25.Officials punished 258 runners for cheating. That included 18 runners with fake bib numbers, three people who competed as different registered runners, and 237 entrants who cut the course, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua. While the runners using fake bibs and the imposters were banned for life, the 237 athletes who cut the course will receive a two-year ban from the event. Those runners were actually caught on video by a traffic...