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Thursday, November 29, 2018
Traffic Cameras catch cheats at Chinese Half-Marathon
The annual half marathon in Shenzhen, China was held recently and there were about 16,000 finishers. It wasn't without incident as traffic cameras caught almost 250 runners cheating by taking shortcuts through bushes.
Organisers of the race also discovered 18 runners wearing fake bibs and three runners they described as "imposters". "Marathon running is not simply exercise, it is a metaphor for life, and every runner is responsible for him or herself," organisers said.
Footage captured by police traffic cameras showed runners cutting through bushes to an adjacent carriageway, instead of continuing along the road and making a U-turn.
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