Jane Seo is a Harvard graduate who writes for the Huffington Post and Buzzfeed. But when you google her, the first available result is about something else entirely.
The 24-year-old, who typically writes about her life in New York, food and drink events, and travel and exercise, ran the Fort Lauderdale Half Marathon on 19 February, and was awarded second place.
That was until Derek Murphy, a blogger and race analyst, noticed a discrepancy with her times, and started to do some investigating. First, he saw that her split times looked odd. It appeared she'd run the second half of the race significantly faster than the first half - something marathon runners don't tend to do. Then, when she uploaded her race information online, it was entered manually, and not linked to any GPS data.
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Actually your article is evidence that she will do just fine. She has enough support within her circle (a very privileged one) that she will most definitely get jobs and flourish despite her cheating. It must be nice to have such a network to fall back on. Most people don't. And why defend Jane Seo and not Mike Rossi ?
You have a privileged Harvard Graduate that works at two of the most visited media pages on the internet. She has probably been given everything her whole life.
Then you have a random half marathon, some people work incredibly hard just to achieve that, yet, though still living a significantly privileged path for a 24 year old felt the need to steal the second place from a hard working person to add to her list of accomplishments.
She absolutely deserved the destruction that followed.
there are very very few privileged people of that caliber in the world. They become role models of tomorrow. Young women would see a 24 year old HuffPo author from Harvard and think "I want to be like that". In exchanged for the privilege of being in that role you should be subject to more scrutiny for screws up, especially selfish childish screw ups like this one. There are only so many role models out there and we really need to cut the fat with the bad ones.