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Marathon runner gets lifetime ban - for riding bike on course
A competitor at a marathon in China has received a lifetime ban from taking part in the race in future after she was caught cycling part of the course.
Still pictures uploaded in a video to YouTube show the woman, sporting the number D2113 on her vest, riding what appears to be a dockless hire bike.
Officials at the Xuzhou International Marathon, which had 22,000 participants, reportedly told her repeatedly to dismount but she ignored them, reports the Independent.
It still took her 5 hours, 38 minutes and 36 seconds to complete the marathon, although she is said to have covered the final 2.195 kilometres in 7 minutes 10 seconds.
Had she maintained that pace for the preceding 40 kilometres, she would have been around 12 minutes off Paula Radcliffe’s women’s marathon world record of 2 hours 15 minutes 25 seconds, set in London in 2003.
She was disqualified from the race and banned from all future events hosted by the organisers, who said: “After an official found her and stopped her, the participant again rode [on the bike]. She violated the rules.”
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If nothing else it shows how goddam fast Paula Radcliffe was. Someone fleeing from officials on a bike can't go faster than her!
Complete double standards!
You wouldn't get banned from a cycle race for walking/running part of it.
Outrageous! ...Chris Froome ... Mont Vontoux ... 2016 ... mumble, mumble ...
For the love of god WHY would you get so close to the finish and then bo****ks it all up by doing that?
To demonstrate to the world the superiority of the bicycle over feet?