Athlete DQ'd at IM Raleigh 70.3 for probable course cutting

Triathlon Forum
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Behold:

https://www.marathoninvestigation.com/2017/07/sponsored-athlete-disqualified-from-raleigh-ironman-70-3.html
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Love the headline. ‘Sponsored’ athlete. Lol

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Always women now.

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Lolling at the comments in the article, looks like the person in question is posting…

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Seriously!

Does she really think anyone is going to buy that 2:01 run when she’s a 1 hour swimmer and nearly 4 hour biker for the 70.3 distance. Not to mention the hour PR for 13.1 miles despite the five hours of racing in the heat beforehand. Complete BS.

I will also judge a book by its cover and say she’s incapable of that 2:01 split. 2:01 is a pretty good female AG split at a hot race like Raleigh. It would have been the 17th fastest run split in her AG.

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I didn’t even notice that!

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“to be fair… shes not sponsored… she simply shares companies she loves and uses. If you knew her in real life, you’d also know that’s not a pr for her, she trained for 6 months with a coach for this race and PR’d her distances/times many times in her training.” uh huh

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Not just that, in her Chicago Marathon she ran a 1:25 half marathon after running the first half. Talk about a negative split!

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I will also judge a book by its cover and say she’s incapable of that 2:01 split.

Judging by her finish line photo, she looks like a pretty good runner…

In both the marathon and the triathlon, her timing chips weren’t working. Unbelievable bad luck…

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Definitely a bad week for women’s triathlon! There was so much shade being thrown all over the place on twitter today (ryf/YVV, Alexandra Tondeur, Michelle Vesterby calling out witsup for giving good press to Lisa Hutthaler)!

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its weird how so many of these seem to have some sort of inspirational/sad/interesting back story

from the comments:
Mandie lost her husband and child, and found endurance sports in her grieving/ recovery.
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Why the cheating? I just don’t get it…it’s not like she was going to podium her age group and whatever admiration folks would have for her embracing endurance sport despite not looking like a “typical” endurance athlete will be overshadowed by the likely ill will generated by what appears to be some skullduggery at Raleigh.

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Doubt she would have made the cut off.

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How long do you think she hung out in the porter potty?

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I’m going to say an aid station eating pretzels covered in gels chasing them with Red Bull fueling up for the 3 miles she had to run.

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Who’s ever heard of Eagle bikes?
That’s the real scandal

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I’m going to say an aid station eating pretzels covered in gels chasing them with Red Bull fueling up for the 3 miles she had to run.

Lol
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Why the cheating? I just don’t get it…it’s not like she was going to podium her age group and whatever admiration folks would have for her embracing endurance sport despite not looking like a “typical” endurance athlete will be overshadowed by the likely ill will generated by what appears to be some skullduggery at Raleigh.

Who besides people on this thread will know she cheated? Will any of her friends look up race results and see she was DQ? I’m guessing the people she is wanting to prove something to will never be the wiser and she will maintain her story.
living with the cheating is a price she is willing to pay for some other gain.

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Love the headline. ‘Sponsored’ athlete. Lol

I didn’t know you could be that slow and have sponsors.

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Who’s ever heard of Eagle bikes?
That’s the real scandal

Surprisingly… I have.