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Mar 2018
8:49am, 6 Mar 2018
28,408 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
The daft thing is that as a county standard runner, he could probably have asked the race organisers for a late entry and been given one. Many race organisers are happy to have quality athletes enter and understand that their plans change late in the day, due to injury and rehab, race planning and other logistics.
The main reasons to not run under someone else's registration - yes cheating is one, but mostly, surely it's the medical one. If someone is ID'd as a different person, no matter how briefly, there is a chance that wrong medication or treatment is administered in a medical emergency. And finally just discourtesy to the organisers, for whom it's a bliddy admin nightmare.
Twit. Harmless in this case, but a twit nonetheless.  G
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Mar 2018
8:50am, 6 Mar 2018
7,617 posts
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Cerrertonia
It's UKA standard practice - rule 209 - 12 month ban for both of them.
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Mar 2018
8:51am, 6 Mar 2018
7,618 posts
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Cerrertonia
HappyG - he did ask for a place - but got an out of office email - perhaps unsurprisingly.
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Mar 2018
8:53am, 6 Mar 2018
14,418 posts
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-o0o-
Thing is, was it just a stupid act or was it nefarious?
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Mar 2018
9:59am, 6 Mar 2018
15,621 posts
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Dvorak
I've been wondering. This is a guy with a degree, a job with some responsibility and experience in athletics. Could he really have been that stupid?* Or was he trying to get his name out there? And banking on the fact that leniency would be shown? In which case, his name is indeed out there, but if he is not sanctioned according to the rules it would be an announcement of open season for number swapping.
In a running FB group I am in, there are a substantial number of "sowhats?; why should he be punished?; it is race organisers own faults" and even a "he won, give him the prize". I suspect all of those people are the types who routinely drive at 45mph in a 30 zone.
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Mar 2018
10:10am, 6 Mar 2018
7,624 posts
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Cerrertonia
Well, he doesn't seem to be taking it too seriously on FB, rather enjoying the publicity. The eventual "winner" has challenged him to a celebrity boxing match and he's joking about nicking another bib to run in the county champs next week if he loses his race licence...
I like how he's logged this run on strava (last training run before XC county champs...)
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Mar 2018
10:16am, 6 Mar 2018
15,623 posts
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Dvorak
(I missed a bit.)
*yes he could be that stupid: I am often unsurprised by the stupidity of clever people (I'm not immune :-p) and the nonsense they can bring themselves to believe or the bad acts they commit (things much, much worse than bib-swapping :-().
I don't think that would count as "celebrity boxing" yet even with the current degraded use of the word. Dust up in a pub car park, maybe.
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Mar 2018
10:29am, 6 Mar 2018
29,058 posts
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Old Croc
Got to agree with Happy G - forma race organiser point of view it's a mare. A swapped entry can mix up more than one category and if it comes to light later then it's hard to rectify quickly. Usual one is a male winning the female prizes!
But without a doubt the medical implications are far more serious. If you are running as Joe Bloggs and have an incident then that's the details we pass to emergency services / hospital / police. They look to those details as the person they are treating or KINFORMING (informing next of kin). And yes I have heard of a man who had a suspected heart attack / collapse running on a swapped number!
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Mar 2018
11:19am, 6 Mar 2018
4,231 posts
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Metro_Nome
There was an incident up here where a runner was running under a swapped number and had a heart failure and had to be airlifted to hospital. the wrong next of kin were called. Luckily the person whose number it was was there and was able to give correct details, but it could have been much worse with the wrong person panicking and the correct next of kin not even knowing
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Mar 2018
12:07pm, 6 Mar 2018
1,031 posts
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CharlieP
I hope he wasn't wearing headphones as well...
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