Race organisers have denied ultra-matharon runner Joasia Zakrzewski's claim they knew she had been given a lift in a car for two-and-a-half miles of the journey.
Zakrzewski finished third in the GB Ultras Manchester to Liverpool 50-mile race earlier this month, but was later disqualified and stripped of her bronze medal after it emerged she had broken the rules by travelling two-and-a-half miles by car. In response, Zakrzewski claimed she did not "purposefully cheat", blaming a "miscommunication" with race marshals.
Speaking to BBC Scotland, she explained she was "tired and jetlagged" after arriving in the UK from Australia the night before and found herself struggling with a leg injury midway through the race. Zakrzewski claimed a friend gave her a lift to the next checkpoint so she could inform marshals that she was withdrawing from the race, but they urged her to keep going.
