Paris half marathon CANCELLED due to coronavirus

And gatherings with more than 5000 people. Meanwhile over the channel the London Half with 13,000 runners go ahead on the same day.

Do London marathon appearance fees get paid if it’s cancelled? Runners have invested time in training

Bib #1 wrote:

Do London marathon appearance fees get paid if it’s cancelled? Runners have invested time in training

In Japan, they have been cancelling races EXCEPT for the Elite, like Today's Tokyo Marathon will have ONLY Elite runners running. So London might do the same.

I would not expect any sort of reimbursement for either London or Paris marathons (or half).

Paris half actually not cancelled but officially "postponed" .... AKA "we keep the money and will let you know at a later date what we decide, and you may need to pay again ..."

This is a joke. Why don't we cancel all aspects of living until this passes? No social gatherings, no travel, no anything, complete quarantine of the world's population for an illness that is only slightly worse than the annual flu. Keep herding sheep a**holes.

Read this. The part about the parade. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/02/29/1918-flu-coronavirus-trump/

life canceled wrote:

This is a joke.

It's really a joke when an event has been canceled so late that everybody already traveled there and went to the expo to pick up the bib etc. So the virus already transmitted there. They should have let the event to take place. This is just an example of how disorganized and dramatic people French are.

When it comes to the fact that most people who have the Corona virus in Europe are either in Italy or visited Italy recently, one has to point out the fact that most public toilettes in Italy don't have soap. They don't wash hands there and therefore the virus spreads so quickly. I have visited Italy more than 100 times and always the same problem in restaurants and places like that: no soap in toilettes.

That decision is for pure show.

Football matchs which host 40-50 000 people have not been postponed in France (unlike Italy). The money and popular interests are not the same.

Abeneziel wrote:

That decision is for pure show.

Football matchs which host 40-50 000 people have not been postponed in France (unlike Italy). The money and popular interests are not the same.

Maybe the difference is that a half marathon attracts more foreigners, whereas footballe matches attract locals.

Funny. I just wondered aloud a few days ago if the timing of the COVID19 peak could result in the cancellation of the Boston Marathon. And now this news. This sucks.

I think the risk of Boston and London is they promote faster cross-region/cross-country spread due to visitors, but on the other hands, a Red Sox game carries a lot of risk as well. I wonder what the relative odds are of Boston being cancelled/scaled-back, but the Red Sox game on the same day happening.

We have cases on West coast. It was all quiet until suddenly. It could be spreading in Boston.

I feel they're treating this like a game of uncle. When are they going to cry uncle and recommend social distancing by cancelling public events? They do NOT want swamped hospitals. You know it has to be there based on travel.

I was planning to run this morning but am now sitting in my hotel room with heavy rain falling non-stop outside. Not the fun weekend I’d planned.

It’s tough to blame the Paris half-marathon organisers who’d wanted to hold the event. It was the French government who took the decision out of their hands and very late in the day too. Like lots of people, I’d already arrived in Paris and picked up my bib from the packed Expo. Why did they allow the Expo to go ahead and not the event itself? Why called off at such ridiculously short notice? I don’t understand why this decision wasn’t taken earlier.

I have been to Italy 3x and never noticed that there was no soap in the bathrooms. There has always been soap. We have been to Florence, Tuscan countryside, Milan, Turino, and the Dolomites. never an issue.

This is NOT about what science says. Its about what political hacks want. Science says this virus is nothing.

life canceled wrote:

This is a joke. Why don't we cancel all aspects of living until this passes? No social gatherings, no travel, no anything, complete quarantine of the world's population for an illness that is only slightly worse than the annual flu. Keep herding sheep a**holes.

This.

Italy visitor wrote:

I have been to Italy 3x and never noticed that there was no soap in the bathrooms. There has always been soap. We have been to Florence, Tuscan countryside, Milan, Turino, and the Dolomites. never an issue.

yes in hotels there is but for example in restaurant toilettes the soap might be empty or there is no and when you go to restrooms at areas di servizio many people fail to wash hands or if they did, not very well. There must be a reason why the corona virus is spreading there and not in other countries.

TMADDOX wrote: Science says this virus is nothing.

Interesting. Link?

Or, if no link, we can safely conclude that you've chosen to make a political/ideological assessment of the cervezavirus. Just like most other folks.

Sad.