{"id":8007,"date":"2023-09-08T01:48:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T01:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/08\/mexico-city-marathon-organizers-investigating-claims-of-cheating\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T01:48:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T01:48:55","slug":"mexico-city-marathon-organizers-investigating-claims-of-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/08\/mexico-city-marathon-organizers-investigating-claims-of-cheating\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico City Marathon organizers investigating claims of cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The organizers of the Mexico City Marathon are investigating reports of \u201cunsportsmanlike conduct\u201d at August\u2019s race following reports of cheating at the event.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Sports Institute of Mexico City (INDEPORTE) said it is \u201cproceeding to identify those cases where participants \u2026 have demonstrated an unsportsmanlike attitude during the event and will invalidate their times\u201d in a statement from August 30. The race itself took place on August 27.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Following reports from Spanish outlet Marca that as many as 11,000 runners had been disqualified for cheating, INDEPORTE published another statement on August 31 expressing \u201cregrets that some media outlets and certain journalist accounts on social media are disseminating incorrect information about competitors with irregular times.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Authorities from INDEPORTE estimate that there are just over 2,000 runners who did not finish the international marathon on August 27 \u2013 whether that number refers to those who deliberately cheated or injured runners seeking a participation medal is unclear.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The results of this review are expected to be released on Friday, where they will report the precise number of those runners who did not finish the competition.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Mexico City race has experienced cheating before, with organizers saying in 2018 that 3,090 competitors from the race that year were disqualified \u2013 though they did not specify the reasons for disqualification.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Mexico City Marathon is one of World Athletics\u2019 \u201cGold Label\u201d races \u2013 the second-highest level of prestige for such events, according to the governing body\u2019s regulations. That label refers to the existence of a world-class elite competition at the marathon.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organizers of the Mexico City Marathon are investigating reports of \u201cunsportsmanlike conduct\u201d at August\u2019s race following reports of cheating at the event. The Sports Institute of Mexico City (INDEPORTE) said it is \u201cproceeding to identify those cases where participants \u2026 have demonstrated an unsportsmanlike attitude during the event and will invalidate their times\u201d in <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}