Is Cheerleading A Sport | Info

Sporting world records are one thing. Blatant cheating is another thing entirely. The meaning of sport is always liable to one's own perception, although it doesn't make the fraud any less dramatic.

Rosie Ruiz at the Boston Marathon

In the 1980 Boston Marathon, Rosie Ruiz became the fastest woman over 26 miles after finishing in just over two and a half hours. She looked remarkably fresh for someone who had just set a new world record. Ruiz insisted there was a simple reason: “I just got up this morning with a lot of energy.”

One of the greatest sporting cheats unravelled when it was discovered that no checkpoint officials or runners could remember even seeing her on the course.

Ruiz had actually taken the subway and hopped off for the last mile or so, exactly the same method she had used, undetected, in the New York Marathon. Not surprisingly, she was disqualified and became the butt of various quips including this from the Washington Post: “Instead of crying on National TV, she should have written a book, Shortcuts to Fame. It would start on Chapter 20.”

Donald Crowhurst in the Golden Globe Race

In 1968, Crowhurst set out to win the first non-stop Golden Globe solo sailing race around the world. While radio reports suggested he was making good progress, Crowhurst had gone completely off course and was bobbing around the South Atlantic going nowhere fast.

He continued to sail across the Atlantic to the coast of South America where he would lie low and wait for the other competitors, including eventual winner Robin Knox-Johnston, to catch up. The 36-year-old spent hours carrying out complex mathematical calculations to maintain the deception.

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