Cape Town marathon cancelled on the morning of the event (because it was windy the night before)

With masters world champs there next year, wouldnt it make sense for Abbott to be there this year to help run things? with them also being part of decision?

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The safety-obsessed officials strike again

These were the same people that during Covid wanted everyone inside their homes

All the reporting I've seen depicts the actual (as opposed to the predicted) weather as ideal for marathoning: sunny and windless.

I was there.

The wind the night before was strong (though nothing out of the ordinary. Cape Town is known as the Windy City..).

On race day the weather was pretty good. A general Cape Town day. Supposedly there were some issues but majority were from night before and rest should have very easily have been solved

The city was full of runners basically doing version of a marathon on there own in the nice weather after it was cancelled.

All in all total joke that it was cancelled and I've run a lot of marathons in a LOT worse. And if they wanted to be worth of marathon status this would have been a chance to show they can adapt as required which often happens in race organization.

Based on today should be a huge F on there world major marathon application

So they were starting this at 6.00am right - presumably you can get all starters out in an hour. Just checked Wunderground for the recorded wind speed today - between 6am and midday the recorded average wind speed was 15mph, with gusts topping out at about 25mph.

That seems like an excuse tending on the weakish side to cancel a marathon that has about 25'000 entrants. For sure there could be some issues with water stations etc if you had them in super exposed areas, but pretty sure Boston has been run in not just windier weather but about 20 degrees+ colder and they managed that.

Are people just hopeless these days? Serious question. Are we becoming a species of non-resilient wowsers that just want to take the easy option with everything? It was so hard to stage a marathon with a little bit of wind so the best option was just cancel it? Cool here is your race entry fee back but that flight, hotel, travel costs etc - just enjoy your day in Cape Town folks.

Good lord, what a debacle.

Idiot

A lot of races have been canceled lately for pretty weak reasons. Carmel this past spring over some passing thuderstorms. Staten Island over a storm that never was. The pu55ification of the sport and society in general continues.

At least Pre-Nats was moved up a day.

We saw Jane run.

A cursory research journey shows how bad violent crime is in Cape Town and that the trajectory keeps getting worse.

There's no crime in Orania.

It's down to the litigious nature of our society and the power of insurance companies to mitigate risk. Even waivers aren't holding up anymore and have to be watered-down.

I'm told that there are safe neighborhoods in Cape Town but the black neighborhoods are no-go zones. (A black African person told me this, so don't cry racism)

I've been to CT quite a lot on business trips and slightly more complex

Majority of the main areas are pretty safe. The marathon route area for example is fine

The black areas are actually not that bad if you go in the day although no real need to go

The places which push up the Violent Crime is skewed by certain "coloured" areas where it's mostly gangs killing each other .. Which pushes up all the stats but doesn't overly effect the rest of the city

That said - the rest of the city isn't exactly super safe but I never feel unsafe when i'm there. The rest of South Africa is a bit of a different story ..

might have less to do with the pu55ification of the sport, and more to do with the litigious society we live in. Thank a lawyer, today.