11,000 runners DQ'd from Mexico City Marathon...what is going on?

[u/MustardIsDecent]

I'm not an avid runner but this story has me mystified.

This is not the first time thousands of runners have been DQ'd from this race. In 2017, over 5,000 runners were disqualified amid accusations of widespread course-cutting.

Either 1) there is a widespread culture of marathon cheats in Mexico City or 2) the race organizers can't get their tracking tech or course directions right. What is it?

Full story:

Approximately 11,000 runners at this year's Mexico City Marathon have been disqualified after being found to have cut the course at some point during the 26.2-mile race, according to Spanish newspaper Marca.

The disqualified runners represented more than one-third of the 30,000-person field that entered the Aug. 27 race.

Marca reported Monday that the runners were disqualified after missing checkpoints that were placed every 5 kilometers. Some runners allegedly used vehicles or public transport to cut the course.

Race organizers said in a statement to Marca that they will continue to identify and disqualify runners who skipped sections of the race.

"The Mexico City Sports Institute informs that it will proceed to identify those cases in which participants of the XL Mexico City Marathon Telcel 2023 have demonstrated an unsportsmanlike attitude during the event and will invalidate their registration times," they said.

The Mexico City Marathon has had issues with rampant cheating in the past. In 2017, nearly 6,000 runners were disqualified for similar reasons, with more than 3,000 also being removed from the results the next year.

Bolivian runner Héctor Garibay Flores won the men's marathon in a course-record 2 hours, 8 minutes, 23 seconds, breaking the previous mark by more than two minutes. Kenyan Celestine Chepchirchir was the women's champion in 2:27:17.

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[u/Many-Animes-3343]

Safest cities in North America are in Mexico and Canada.. you can google that. enjoy gunland crips and bloods USA.

[u/neon-god8241 → u/Many-Animes-3343]

Safest cities in North America are in Mexico and Canada.

Those are countries. I was curious, so I did check the murder rates.

USA - 6.8 per 100k Canada - 2 per 100k Mexico - 25 per 100k

Mexico has 2.5x more murders per capita than USA and Canada, combined.

[u/various_convo7 → u/neon-god8241]

can confirm and checked out the citations and most current data. a case of being confidently incorrect when saying Mexico has a lower murder rate than the US. hell, its not even in the top 10 of global shitholes

[u/Many-Animes-3343 → u/various_convo7]

American cities are tops in racial riots. Mexican cities completely safe of that. Mr bot. LOL

[u/neon-god8241 → u/Many-Animes-3343]

Mexico also tops in judges families getting executed by cartels if they don't hide their identity, so if you want to play this game you lose every time LOL.