• Italian

199 athletes were eliminated from the final classification of the Florence Marathon for misconduct tackling the competition. It was possible to identify these players unfair with Timing Data Service, a company that provides management services for enrollment and tracking orders arrival with a chip active and passive systems that have carried out checks along the route.
The staff of the Florence Marathon explains: “The marathon is a test that requires passion, commitment and effort, a challenge themselves with before with others, deal with honesty and fairness. For us it is a duty identify those athletes who reach the result “cheating”, perhaps by cutting the path to save miles, and for that, every year, we implement extremely rigid controls on the course. We convinced that it is also a sign of deep respect to the thousands of competitors who finish
regular 42 kilometers and 195 meters”.
Of the 199 athletes removed from the order of arrival, after being passed the finish line, 12 didn’t start, or not being on the route, 96 are withdrawn not have completed the race and the 91 disqualified, for which irregularities journey to inconsistencies of time in fractions controlled.
The most singular, was also highlighted through audits visual, was that of an athlete passed on a bicycle. Following the inspection results are regularly classified 8170 athletes and 25 disabled.

(via Adrenaline Channel)