domingjm wrote:
awenborn wrote:
Well he's not really admitting anything. He conceded, in the face of the overwhelming evidence, that he can't have run the full course, but then tried to shift the blame onto everyone else other than himself. "Blah blah blah, course map was confusing, blah blah blah, race organisers should have picked up the bogus times, blah blah blah, Boston wouldn't have let me in anyway."
Bullshit! It was an outright attempt to cheat, was caught red-handed with impartial timing data and eye-witness testimony, yet still fails to come clean and invents some cock-and-bull story to save face! He's still living just as much of lie as Mike Rossi et al. and there's not much honour in that...
There's no question that he's still deflecting blame. But from my perspective, I don't think there's evidence to suggest that he intentionally cut the course: neither planned nor in the spur of the moment. Does that mitigate his culpability? I think it does. Honestly, I kind of think he's not terribly bright and that he really believed he ran a lights-out performance.
Except that his account doesn't jive with the on-course officials. Even giving this guy the benefit of the doubt that he thought he was crushing it, when the guy on the course told him he was in front of the leaders, he lied and said he had left the lead bike and leaders in the dust. Now, why would he say that if he just missed a turn or didn't do a loop? Why would you suddenly concoct that story unless you had premeditated that course cutting?
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