Greatest...Cheating Story...EEEEver!! 😄

WAY funnier than the Democrats in the 2020 Election! 😉

On Sunday, August 27th, the Mexico City Marathon was held in Mexico City, Mexico (duh🙄).
This race is one of the world's biggest marathons and draws tens of thousands of runners each year.

And of the 30,000 runners entered in this year's event, over 11,000 of them have been disqualified thus far for cutting the course throughout the race. 😆

It wasn't even a route error or somebody taking a wrong turn and everyone following, which I've seen happen at cross country races, and would've been funny AF if 11,000 people did it, but that's not what happened here. It sounds like it was just complete wanton cheating mayhem, with people jumping in taxis and cars and hopping on bikes and scooters they stashed all over the place.
They have timing mats every 5 kilometers at these big "certified" marathons, and your feet have to hit all of them or you're out, and they're saying they're DQ'ing people off the ‘miss’ data from every one of the mats.

And the best part is, every year the "Finisher's Medal" has a different letter from the word "MEXICO" on it, so if you complete the race for six years straight you have the full "M-E-X-I-C-O" set...and the theory on the rampant cheating is that this year was the "O" year, so if you missed it this year you'd have to wait six years to get another shot at the "O" to complete the set and that's what caused the widespread cheating. They said the same thing happened during the last "O" year in 2017, but only 6000 people got DQ'd...so I guess people in general are six years shittier now and it got worse. 🤣

I don't know if that last part's bullshit or not, but it's faacking funny as hell. 😆

I love it when "track & field world" collides hilariously with "normal world" in G-World. 😉