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The whole article reads like a remake of the earliest history of racing, just slightly modernised with GPS, transponders and Instagram. Road cycling history is full of stories of who took a train where in what race and how did he get caught. Entertaining stuff.

A tangent of the article also mentions the use of an invented marathon to fill a gap in the achievement list of an ambitious runner. In the early boom years of road cycling, claiming wins in bogus races was so commonplace that avoiding that kind of CV hacking was the main driver in the formation of official regulations and organizations like UCI, afaik.