So who won the tour from 1999 to 2005

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larkim 2 Feb 9:13pm, 2 Feb 2024 23,141 posts	0 larkim There's no legitimate reason for doing it though, is there? Not unless you were just down the pub afterwards and said "gutted, my watch didn't work so I'll not get the mileage on strava" and your geeky mate says "no worries, I can knock up a gpx file for you to upload, can make it close enough".
larkim 2 Feb 9:14pm, 2 Feb 2024 23,142 posts	0 larkim Just to add that that I know it’s possible to create a file, add HR data, add cadence data to etc. But the question I still have is “why?”, when it appears she may not even have been at the race? Why did an experienced runner with nothing to prove feel the need to do that? That’s what I don’t understand. She was at the race, the photo taken part way up the Mall (by her) suggests that, though whether she actually ran the course or not is a different question... The "I had a place via RW and didn't get a chip or a bib" stuff sounds nonsense to me.
Pothunter 2 Feb 9:19pm, 2 Feb 2024 8,608 posts	0 Pothunter No bib = no run in my book. Don’t care what your story is about why you don’t have a bib, or who you are to think you deserve a bib. I’m surprised she wasn’t removed from the course by marshals for not having a bib.
larkim 2 Feb 10:46pm, 2 Feb 2024 23,143 posts	0 larkim I agree, it sounds utterly implausible too. The 'slebs all get bibs and chips, there's no way they would give some sort of unchipped bib to a journo, or allow her to run without.
SPR 2 Feb 11:15pm, 2 Feb 2024 43,568 posts	0 SPR She hasn't commented has she? I see her Twitter has disappeared though.
Nelly 6 Feb 11:47am, 6 Feb 2024 4,398 posts	0 Nelly She hasn't commented has she? I see her Twitter has disappeared though. She has now telegraph.co.uk (It wasn't just her Twitter account that disappeared, so did her ~~strava~~ and Instagram accounts prior to issuing a "lengthy statement" to the Telegraph) I can't see any justification for anything she has done in her statement, other than she did it to feed her ego.
paulcook 6 Feb 11:55am, 6 Feb 2024 4,236 posts	0 paulcook I presume her statement is longer than copied here: In a lengthy statement to The Telegraph, Ms Carter said she had never sought an official race time as she was not in peak fitness. But she then ran quicker than expected and wanted to upload it to her ~~strava~~ account: “This is when I made the mistake of trying to create a route manually based on my time.” she said. “Soon after I realised this was foolish and removed it from my feed. “I also feel it is important to admit that part of this was about my ego. Even in the amateur running world there is pressure to maintain form and times... My own desire to be seen to be doing well at a time when I was feeling weak and below par, resulted in a momentary lapse of judgment which I very much regret.” Addressing the half marathon anomaly, she said she had “very unfortunately and embarrassingly had wet myself and wanted therefore to step off the course to try and sort myself out” which is “something that happens to many runners”. “When I rejoined the race, it is possible that I did so at the wrong point on the course, though that was not my intention,” she added, insisting that “I made some stupid mistakes in how I recorded my times on my personal ~~strava~~ record” but that she “was in no way trying to deceive the organisers of either event about my times”. A spokesman for Runner’s World UK said: “We are aware of an online article regarding Kate Carter. At Runner’s World, we are committed to upholding the trust our audience and the running community has in our brand, and are investigating these claims internally.”
larkim 6 Feb 12:36pm, 6 Feb 2024 23,151 posts	0 larkim The marathon one feels plausible only to the extent that she ran the race without a bib and wanted to do an upload - for me it's the running without a bib that is really very odd. "Possible I rejoined the race at the wrong point" is nonsense; you step off, you clean up, you get back on where you left and not a good long distance down the course "by mistake" surely?
Chrisull 6 Feb 12:39pm, 6 Feb 2024 21,078 posts	0 Chrisull Crikey - she only needed to say this part - ie the confession. "“I also feel it is important to admit that part of this was about my ego. Even in the amateur running world there is pressure to maintain form and times... My own desire to be seen to be doing well at a time when I was feeling weak and below par, resulted in a momentary lapse of judgment which I very much regret.”" Everything else is bullshit/equivocation.
Nelly 6 Feb 12:46pm, 6 Feb 2024 4,399 posts	0 Nelly "Possible I rejoined the race at the wrong point" is nonsense; you step off, you clean up, you get back on where you left and not a good long distance down the course "by mistake" surely? I am in no way defending her excuse