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We've talked about a lot of cheating methods before, from carving small copies on pens to hiding signal receivers under slippers, but to be honest, these tricks are a bit of a fuss compared to the recent cheating.

Because there were 11000 cheaters in this marathon.

What kind of cheater league, this number feels like it can redefine the game. I wonder if this game is "cheating even if you don't cheat", or it is actually a mid-patience test, which specializes in assessing the ability to cheat.

The match side can be called a "match judge", and the decision was like shooting with Gatlin, sweeping tens of thousands of people in one breath.

The marathon, recently held in Mexico City, attracted 30, 000 applicants, or 1/3 of cheaters, after event organizers received complaints about cheating.

According to the complaint, some runners transferred to cars or other means of transportation, or even cyclists, in a variety of ways to speed up or save energy to reach their destination faster.

Boy, put it here for a prop game, right?

Therefore, after receiving the report, the event side immediately launched an investigation, and as a result, the good guy found tens of thousands of illegal operations, and then directly cancelled their results.

Many people are confused about this number range, 10,000 people, this is also too many abnormal, tens of thousands of people take taxis, ride bicycles, enough cars, afraid of not turning into a racing car race.

So how is this number confirmed?

To put it simply, an electronic checkpoint is set up every five kilometers on the track of the marathon, and a tracker is installed in the runner's uniform. When passing the checkpoint, the tracker can record their performance at this node and synchronize it to the relevant software. In this way, we can not only record the progress of the competition, but also monitor whether the contestants are competing in accordance with the prescribed route.

But when the racers checked the tracker, they found that thousands of people did not have a complete record, that is, they did not run all the checkpoints.

In other words, according to this result, it is that some people have bypassed the prescribed track in some way, either taking a shortcut, or running two steps and then taking a car, waiting for the large army to arrive and then insert it from the path and mix it to finish the race. so there is the scene of cheating army.

But many contestants are not satisfied with the result because people feel that it may be something wrong with your tracker. I worked hard to finish the whole journey, but even if you didn't record it, if it was the equipment, it would be too metaphysical for everyone to reason.

However, at present, there is no tendency to compromise, saying that this is still a grand and excellent sports event, and they also call on the participants to maintain integrity, so that sports competitions can have a positive impact on society. At the same time, they will continue to investigate the matter and cancel the achievements of the violators.

In fact, Mexico seems to have a lot of experience in dealing with this kind of thing, because such large-scale violations have been recorded many times.

In the 2017 Mexico City Marathon, for example, more than 5800 runners were disqualified, equivalent to 1/5 of the participants. At that time, the event officials explained that the person who was disqualified was because he skipped the checkpoint and took a shortcut.

Another 5000 people were disqualified by 2018 for the same reason, but it was initially interpreted as 13000 disqualified, so there may be an adjustment in the number of violations this year.

If there is this problem all the time, why not check the machine again?

It was once suspected that the reason for cheating might be related to the collection of medals.

Since 2013, runners who have finished the Mexico City Marathon will be awarded alphabet medals in the form of the letters MEXICO, which is the English word for "Mexico". And it will be out of print in 2018, which is similar to collecting Shuihu cards when I was a child.

And this has spawned a "purchasing agent" market. Someone runs instead, and then cheats to finish the race and get the medal back and sell it.

The problem is that by 2019, although the medals were replaced, 2000 people were still disqualified. And some people complain that it may not be difficult to copy this kind of thing, so there is no need to risk participating in the competition.

In fact, not only in Mexico, people have been trying to cheat in marathons, but athletes have come up with a lot of tricks around the world.

For example, in 1999, a pair of twin brothers ran a marathon in South Africa and then played a raccoon cat for a crown prince. They pretended to be the same person during the race and finished the race in a relay. Compared with others, they simply doubled their strength and finally won a bonus.

Later, the reason for wearing the band was that when people compared the photos, they found that the position of the watch did not match the scar on the body.

In 2011, a contestant was exposed for cheating because he was found to be taking a bus during the race, and even earlier, people were taking the subway.

In 2015, one runner easily overtook his rivals before the finish line and won a $7000 bonus because he cut the race by half and got in in the middle.

You may think it would be better to stand to the finish line next time, but someone did a similar operation in 1980. The race was invisible throughout the race, but it could be seen before the finish line.

In 2018, a former champion athlete was revealed to have a history of cheating and hid in the toilet to regain his strength. This year, a contestant in Australia also had a problem. It is said that he used the car by mistake because of injuries during the race.

In short, some of them are habitual criminals and cheaters who have been hidden for a long time before they are discovered, while others are confused for a moment and regret for a single mistake.

And I think if it really doesn't work, we can start a "Battle of the Gods" alone. You can cheat by driving and hanging at will, take a taxi, borrow a friend's car, bike, scooter, roller coaster, you can fly or teleport if you have the ability.

Although in such a competition, the limit of human physical fitness can not be reflected, but we can know where the limit of human imagination is.

Reference:

Https://people.com/mexico-city-marathon-disqualifies-11000-runners-for-cheating-7966779

Https://www.espn.com/blog/onenacion/post/_/id/8439/how-collectible-medals-and-likes-encouraged-cheaters-in-the-mexico-city-marathon

Https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/other-sports/wildest-marathon-cheats-including-man-28123663

Https://www.outsideonline.com/health/running/cheaters-mexico-city-marathon/

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This article is from the official account of Wechat: mad Pill Research Institute (ID:kuangwanplay), author: mad Maru

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