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The Continuum of Cheating in Marathons
There seems to be this thing of people cheating in marathons. The latest one I read was somebody used a bicycle to cut some of the course out. Can you help explain this? And I think it helps. There might be what we could call a continuum of cheating. So on one end, it may start where you show up for a race and don't plan to cheat. You finish your 11th loop. Your legs are shot. Would you take that medal and say your race is over and claim to have finished the race? That's one situation where maybe then if you're called out later, yes, I did cheat. I shouldn't have taken the medal.
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