The spin they put on this is incredible. Doesn't talk about all his disqualifications and that the Marathon declared his times objectively impossible. Guy cheats like crazy, crazy bad, objectively. The article puts a different spin on it but it was objective, not accused of cheating, cheater. Oh, oh, but he's a doctor. Doctor's don't cheat, they're super honest, the community, gives away money, good person good person!

They don't even do that much to get at him, they just ask him to prove it. I don't see it as harassment. He put himself in the spotlight when he ran those crazy times. Keep in mind, if this guy actually had actually run even one of his times for real, it would have been an opportunity to challenge the best. Just run one more marathon, or not even, just 5K at that same speed. A chance at the bigtime!

This happened with the Wright Brothers, the press actually did harass them in that case, but everyone said they were "Flyers or Liars". It was an opportunity! Well the Wright Brothers were Flyers. Frank Meza was a liar. And when the Wright Brothers did fly in front of all those journalists they became the most famous people in the world!

Meza had so many opportunities to admit he cheated.

And he had the choice (obviously not but hypothetically) of running like he said he did! They gave him that out!

Nobody looks at the people he cheated, he didn't cheat the marathon, he cheated other runners, real people came in one slot later, there was a real 70-74 year old who actually had merit that could have come in first and made the news, except for Frank Meza. It's just not the same to be declared a winner after the fact, by disqualification especially if the cheater never admits it. And runners just hate the cheaters, this is so much worse than steroids, teleporters ruin the sport on another level. And never admits it, with so much proof! Like he tried running even half as fast as he said he did and he ends up cardiac problems!

Headline should say "Marathon Cheater Frank Meza Kills Himself to Avoid Admitting It".

There's life after death. In a parallel universe, he respawned in like a psych ward (typically) and it's twice as bad, I guess they treat him better in the ward because he's a doctor but he still lives his life out in shame as a fraud. Probably then his life really does fall apart, people going through everything he's done with a fine-toothed comb, and find all sorts of stuff. Nobody cheats exclusively in the cases they're caught.

He just spent his whole life asking people to kiss up to him, well where he respawned I can tell you there is absolutely none of that.