Why do people keep cheating at marathons?

Patrick Redford interviews Dennis Young from Front Office Sports about the curious phenomenon of people cheating in marathons.

Episode transcript here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ckILetF2Ppwha1sA5MfLASLx6VkLCIRQSYQaMqmOau8/edit?usp=sharing

🏷️: marathon cheating, Rosie Ruiz, Boston Marathon, Kip Litton, Mike Rossi, Frank Meza, letsrun.com, Derek Murphy, Marathon Investigation, bib swapping, course cutting, running scandal, amateur athletics, online sleuths, Strava cheating, marathon qualifying, running community, athletic fraud, Only If You Get Caught, Patrick Redford, Dennis Young

Show Credits

Only If You Get Caught is written and hosted, by Patrick Redford.

It’s produced by Alex Sujong Laughlin, with production support from Harry Krinsky. Justin Ellis is Defector’s projects editor. Mixing by Samantha Gattsek Show art by Jim Cooke. Jasper Wang and Tim Faust are Defector’s business guys. Thank you to the Defector staff.

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