Yeah once I saw her running around 3 hour 13.1's I knew it just didn't add up. Oh well..

In my short time at slow twitch. This thread has been one of the craziest things I've read.

Escalated so quickly

We won't let somebody stay DQ'd if the performance is legit and we won't let an illegit performance stand. We work very closely with the Ironman refs before, during and after the events to make sure the results are complete and correct. Obviously they get the final call and they have access to any of our data whenever they need it.

I won't comment on the full case here, but I'll clarify the swim and T1 times. We had two sets of wires (2 for redundancy/backup) strung all the way across the exit of the swim to catch both the lap and finish. The first pass goes into the lap, the second into the swim. For whatever reason #461 had only one pass recorded, therefore it went into the lap and there was no final time for the swim. The IM tracker calculates all intermediate splits by subtracting the time of the previous split. In the case of T1 for 461 there was no previous split so it gave total running time for T1 - 1:22:59.

461 has a swim time recorded at 8:08:39 (7:00:00 start) and a T1 time recorded at 8:22:59. So T1 was 14:20. After that the bike splits at 15/33/55/72 & 95 miles were recorded normally. I could assume that 8:08:39 was the second pass of the swim and just move it from the lap to the swim, but I'm not going to make an assumption like that during or after the race until I can figure out what really happened - obviously some people do cut loop courses, either intentionally or not. I announced at the athletes' meeting on Thursday night that we had 1 swim split, 5 bike splits and 11 run splits, so don't even think about a short-cut. That's going to apply doubly at IMAZ - we'll have even more splits with the 3-lap bike and run courses. There's no way a short performance is going to stand. Even if intermittent chip reads are claimed, the order in which they occur at the various locations and the corresponding times will show what really happened. If it's legit, it'll stand and if a DQ was applied it'll be removed. If not...

It gets like that sometimes here.

Disclaimer: I have been watching this all afternoon and wasted well over an hour or two watching this thing unfold. I had nothing to do today and it's been quite interesting.

But go back and take a look at her history of threads she has commented on! This girl was clearly very interested in cheaters and how they did it.

We have Finman and IM Florida Poop Guy.

We need to give this girl a nickname. Any suggestions?

Following up on what Marc and I said:

#461

T2 @ 9:47:47 (total running time)
2-mile @ 10:24:49
4-mile @ 11:04:18
6.5-mile turn @ 11:48:58
4-mile on return leg @ 12:36:18
2-mile on return leg @ 13:14:54
13-mile near turn @ 13:51:20
Finish @ 13:56:15

A 4:08:28 run with all splits for a single lap in correct chronological order, only one pass of the far turn at 2:01:11 and only one pass of the near turn at 4:03:33.

DQ stands.

Even more splits at Tempe :-)

The double one-looper.

I really wanted to believe that she actually did the whole thing. This really went downhill though. Theres alot of evidence against her...

Yeah, but she has a reason/excuse for every piece of evidence........

I especially like the excuse for the 49 minute, wetsuit legal, current aided IM 70.3 Augusta swim: "I freaked out"

or

The Jacksonville marathon 3:01:xx with missing splits: "I signed up for the full but ran the half with a friend". I know I certainly wouldn't admit to a 3+ hour half marathon.