legal Cheek have a knack for picking up the better stories of the week. Although to be fair the whole thing started as a beat up in the Sun.
Legal Cheek write…
But even The Sun was forced to recognise that Helm had gone through all the checkpoints and so, erm, wasn’t actually cheating at all. Helm’s official race times also provided irrefutable proof that he had gone over the start line. In fact the lawyer was only guilty of getting caught short, a fairly common occurrence during a 26.2 mile race.
Helm now joins an elite group of athletes to have made headlines at the London marathon, albeit for needing to take a piss behind some bins* rather than breaking records or crawling over the line.
Helm told RollOnFriday, “This was my first marathon and if the rather unexpected interest in my call of nature prompts a few more people to donate money to the Guide Dogs for the Blind and beat my target of £2,500, I would be very grateful.”
In recognition of Helm’s marathon effort and for being a good sport, please dig deep-ish and donate to his page here.
Source: https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/exclusive-spb-partner-exonerated-after-marathon-cheat-slur
