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See, Teamwork DOES Help Your Running

Liu Shuling was the first woman across the finish line at the Yellow River Estuary International Half-Marathon in Shandong, China. And she owed it all to her friend, Wang Xueqin. That’s because Wang switched places and bib numbers with Liu sometime during the race. Race officials examining videotape footage caught the exchange and banned both runners for two years.

Though there have been many marathon cheaters before, this may be the first recorded instance of a ringer winning a major road race.

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