http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/sports/01runners.html?ref=sports

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/sports/01runners.html?ref=sports

The siren songs from the park were apparently too alluring for Wendy
Savinar and Cheryl Rosenberg, the two California women with suspicious
times in last year¹s race. There was no electronic timing record of them
from Miles 17 to 25. Discussing in a telephone interview whether she had
run the whole race, Ms. Savinar said, ³I technically hadn¹t.² She said
that an ankle injury compelled her to cut to Central Park and that Ms.
Rosenberg went along.

On Oct 31, 6:04 pm, "rick++"<rick... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/sports/01runners.html?ref=sports

Same old, same old. People cheat - period. Some cut the course, others
take drugs, some run under another name.
Some things will never stop. All the honesty checks go into making
sure those that earn money are legit short of testing for
hermaphrodites.

It would seem fairly easy to run a program against each runners 5k
times and look for big deviations. The mats at least insure each
chip crosses every 5k. If they hand off the chip to another runner
they will probably get away with it unless the second runner is some
serious factor faster.

I'm always amazed when people are amazed that people cheat in races.
Duh? Ever wonder how many people file less than honest income tax
returns, speed or drive while drunk?

I'm not surprised that we don't have even more people cheating. Our
economic conditions aren't in their current state because people were
being honest. We can't open a newspaper/magazine without being
inundated with either lies or disinformation on both sides. In some
countries a bribe is way of life. I hope we come out of this abyss
with some morality remaining.

-D