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The Chinese marathon match-fixing controversy was true Winners in the end

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Three Chinese players hired as pacemakers gave up the win to China's Heoje before the finish line.



Heo Je, who won the Beijing Half Marathon on the 14th, slowed down right before the finish line to allow He Je to overtake him, and the three African marathoners who finished in second place were stripped of their medals. [Bangkok (Thailand) = AP/Newsis]


Heo Je, who won the Beijing Half Marathon on the 14th, slowed down right before the finish line to allow He Je to overtake him, and the three African marathoners who finished in second place were stripped of their medals.


The controversy that foreign athletes ran as 'pacemakers' to help China's He Jie (25) win the '2024 Beijing Half Marathon' turned out to be true, and the winners were eventually disqualified.


According to foreign media outlets such as the Guardian on the 19th, the 2024 Beijing Half Marathon Organizing Committee announced that after investigating suspicions of match-fixing, it was confirmed that three foreign athletes helped Heo Je win by slowing down the race. The committee said, “Of the four foreign athletes who participated as pacemakers, one gave up the race midway, but three others ran ahead and intentionally slowed down with the last 2km remaining.”


The committee canceled Heo Je's first place record and also canceled the records of three foreign players who tied for second place. It was also decided to recover the total medals and prize money they received.


Kenyan player Willie Nnangat confessed his involvement in match-fixing in an interview with BBC Sports Africa. “I wasn’t there to compete,” he said. “My job was to set the pace and help the guy win, but unfortunately he didn’t achieve his goal of breaking the national record.”


The committee did not say whether the race was rigged, but did apologize in a statement. The committee said, “We deeply and sincerely apologize to the world and all walks of life for failing to discover and correct mistakes in this race in a timely manner.” The Guardian also reported that Zhong'ao Lupao Sports Management Co., the organizer of the event, was stripped of its right to host the Beijing Half Marathon as punishment for this incident.


Heo Je won the competition held in Beijing, China on the 14th with a record of 1 hour, 3 minutes and 44 seconds, but as the video of the competition spread on social media, controversy over 'match fixing' arose.


In the released video, Kenyan players Robert Keeter and Willie Nnangat and Ethiopian player Dejene Bikila were seen looking back at Heoje and slowing down. As Heo Je followed closely, one of the players gestured as if to go first. Meanwhile, Heo Je is a gold medalist at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games. 고스톱사이트

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