Canadian Running Magazine claimed earlier this week to have discovered a scandal in the ultra running community. According to the Canadian running website, renowned ultrarunner Camille Herron (42) and her husband Conor Holt have made several changes to other ultrarunners’ Wikipedia pages, where they have, among other things, removed accolades and descriptions. Ultra runners Cortney Dauwalter and Kilian Jornet, the latter living in Norway, are among those who have been affected by the case. On Thursday, the equipment supplier Lululemon chose to end its collaboration with Herron. POSTPONED: Kilian Jornet and Courtney Dauwalter are both world-class ultra runners. Photo: Roy Kenneth Jacobsen / news / PACHOUD / AFP “Removed exaggerations”, says one of the change logs on Cortney Dauwalter’s Wikipedia page. On both Jornet’s and Dauwalter’s pages, the sentence “regarded as one of the best cross-country runners ever” has been removed. At the same time, a corresponding sentence must have been added on Herron’s own page. – I am one hundred percent responsible According to the running website, they were able to trace the account back to Herron’s email address and her husband’s IP address. It must also have been operated with different accounts, as the original one was temporarily banned for breaching the guidelines. – It is a confirmation of why Wikipedia is not used as sources in scientific articles. And that it is so easy to fix, says ultrarunner Sebastian Conrad Håkonsson to news. AMONG THE ELITE: Håkansson was named Norwegian male ultra runner of the year in 2022. Photo: PRIVATE But there turned out to be more details to the story. On the night of Wednesday, her husband Connor Holt sent out an email to a handful of media outlets, including news. – Camille had nothing to do with this. I am one hundred percent responsible and apologize to athletes who are affected by this and the mistake I made, he writes. Since 2017, over 300 changes have reportedly been made to the accounts associated with Herron and her husband. Over half must have been on Herron’s own Wikipedia page. Holt claims that he originally created the account to manage Herron’s Wikipedia page, but that it took a different direction last year. – Part of a pattern He claims that from 2023 to the present they have been plagued by internet trolls that he names in the email. According to Holt, they must have repeatedly edited out important parts of Herron’s life and biographical details on her Wikipedia page. – I continued to add the details back, but then they blocked my account in early February this year, writes Holt to news. He therefore created a new account. – Nothing was in conflict with what other athletes have on their pages. I started from what other athletes have on their pages and cut and pasted this information, he says. The last change made to this account was made on April 29 of this year. By April 10, the account added the description “one of the best ever” to Herron’s page. On the same day, the same description was removed from the Wikipedia page of Kilian Jornet, by the same user. – I really only think that it is nitrite. If it were me, I wouldn’t care so much about what was written on my Wikipedia page, says Håkansson. How Wikipedia works Wikipedia is a freely available encyclopedia on the internet. It is edited according to the so-called wiki principle, which means that anyone is free to contribute content and to edit published content. The wiki principle is applied with certain limitations. The wiki principle is a contrast to traditional encyclopedias where the content is often authored and/or quality assured by subject experts. The contributors are recommended, among other things, to maintain a versatile approach to the subject and to strive for neutrality in the treatment of controversial subjects. Source: Store Norske Leksikon The president of GOMU has also criticized the actions. – Unfortunately, the Wikipedia story is part of a pattern. This couple has a history of trying to influence athletes, their reputations, races and performances. This unsportsmanlike behavior is bullying and mean-spirited and has no place in the great ultra running community, said president Trishul Cherns. – Tried to protect against the constant bullying Within a day after Canadian Running Magazine published the story about Herron, her Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts all disappeared. Hours later, the husband says he was the one who did this, due to the nasty comments Herron received after the story came out on Monday. GONE: This is what it looked like when you looked up Herron’s social media on Tuesday. Now the husband takes the blame. – I was just trying to protect Camille from the constant bullying, harassment and accusations she has had to endure during her running career, which has seriously affected her mental health. So much so that she has sought professional mental health care, writes Holt. Holt also writes in the e-mail that he never got around to commenting on the original article about the Wikipedia cheating and that he only found an e-mail in the spam folder. The journalist behind the article claims they tried to contact Herron by repeated attempts via several e-mails and social media – without success. – However, we received an answer 90 minutes after the case ended on Monday. Then she asked us to remove the article, saying it was blasphemous and scandalous. She wondered how we could do this to her right before the big race in Greece. What she didn’t do was address the comments and address the story, says Canadian Running Magazine’s Marley Dickinson, who says they’ve been in “partial contact” without getting any answers. This weekend, Herron will be in Greece to run the ultra race Spartathlon, together with six Norwegians, among others. Last year there was a bloodbath: Norwegian in spectacular extreme sports film: – Insane 01:02 Check out this panty hold 00:33 Trying to hit the mark at 200 km/h 00:34 Here it goes wrong 00:33 Show more Published 27.09.2024, at 07.11
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