The organizers of the Mexico City Marathon said they were investigating runners of the race last month for “unsportsmanlike” attitudes, after reports of people cheating emerged online.
The Sports Institute of Mexico City, which organized the marathon, said in a statement last week that it would “proceed to identify those cases in which the participants” of the 40th Mexico City Marathon “would have demonstrated an unsportsmanlike attitude during the event and will invalidate their recorded times.”The institute did not immediately respond to questions about how many people had been disqualified from the race or why they had been disqualified.
There is precedent for a large number of disqualifications at the marathon.
Organizers said in 2018 that 3,090 runners were disqualified, mostly for course cutting, or crossing the finish line without running the entire distance.
In 2017, they disqualified 5,806 people, most of whom had engaged in course cutting.
Organizations:
Mexico City Marathon, The Sports Institute of
Locations:
Mexico, The Sports Institute of Mexico City