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Revision as of 11:48, 11 May 2017 by Kevin McE (talk | contribs) (→top: I *had* already raised it at talk: no-one there disagreed.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Robert Young is an English endurance runner.
In 2016 he attempted to break the record for the fastest run across the United States, but was accused of cheating, and there were reports of him riding in his support vehicle of the way. A team of volunteers followed him to observe whether he was cheating or not, but this group disbanded, according to one of its members, "because I do not want to be a party to putting Robert Young in the hospital". He started the attempt on May 14, but had to abandon the project on June 20 in Indianapolis, suffering a fractured toe and cellulitis. Young's sponsor, Skins, asked two independent experts from the University of Colorado, Boulder and University of the Free State to track telemetry data and determine if cheating had categorically taken place. Despite Mr Young attempting to hide the data from his run by wiping his GPS watches the report concluded that Mr Young could not possibly have been running for large sections of the attempt.
References
- Homer, Jill (22 June 2016). "Runner's lie? Cheating rumors didn't stop Robert Young – but something else did". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
- Ingle, Sean (3 October 2016). "Runner's cheating is exposed but for once a sponsor stands tall". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
- "Report finds that Robert Young cheated parts of trans-America record attempt - Canadian Running Magazine". Canadian Running Magazine. 2016-10-02. Retrieved 2017-05-11.