[1] In 1896, Spyridon Belokas rode in a carriage for part of the Olympic marathon in Athens after having supposedly dropped out of the race, and appeared to have finished third to seemingly complete a Greek top-three sweep.
After it was discovered she had only run the last half-mile (800m) of the race, her medal was revoked and her result deleted from the records;[4] in any case, the discovery that Ruiz had cut the course in New York would have been enough to automatically disqualify her from Boston.
[6] In July 2024, Syed Saddiq, a Malaysian Member of Parliament for Muar, had his results in the 113 Triathlon Desaru 2024 deleted after it was found that it was not humanly possible for him to have completed the bicycle segment as claimed.
The second-, third- and fourth-place finishers could not recall seeing her, and the runner-up went as far as to publicly confront the winner and ask when she passed her, an unusual occurrence according to Ironman Canada's regional director.
The other three athletes conducted their own investigation after race officials rebuffed them, and compiled evidence that indicated that the apparent winner could not possibly have reached specific points at the times she claimed during the marathon segment of the competition.