It's spelled out pretty clearly on the registration page for IMChoo

a) Partial Refund
Withdrawal requests must be received in writing via email to the race contact email. Without exception, all requests must be received on or before August 13, 2020 to be eligible for a partial refund of $150.00 USD. Deferments are NOT permitted. The Withdrawal Policy also applies to the Foundation and Relay Entries.
b) Deferral Option
Athletes who register on or before January 5, 2020 are eligible to defer their entry into the 2021 IRONMAN Chattanooga free of charge. All deferral requests will be honored until August 13, 2020 regardless of the reason for deferral. The deferral may only be used once. Athletes who elect to defer their entries forfeit any partial refund, ability to transfer or insurance refund. To submit a deferral request. please contact chattanooga@ironman.com.
c) NORTH AMERICAN TRANSFER PROGRAM
Athletes who are unable to attend the event are eligible to transfer their entry into a 2020 North American IRONMAN or IRONMAN 70.3 race that has general entry slots available. Transfer requests out of IRONMAN Chattanooga will be honored until August 13, 2020. Please visit the North American Transfer Program website prior to submitting your request to view additional program policies. To submit a transfer request. please contact chattanooga@ironman.com.Athletes must transfer out of this race by August 13, 2020 and into the transfer event no later than 45days prior to event. All transfer requests are subject to availability. To inquire about a transfer, please contact the race email.

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The viability of running Ironman Malaysia would be determined by the Thai/Malaysia bubble and the situation in Singapore.They have been allowing migrant workers to cross the southern Thai border for a couple of weeks now and the airports are opening up between "friendly countries" in the area although quarantine still applies..Singapore is the main one and I say this because a huge number of athletes who compete in the two Malaysian races are from Malaysia,Singapore,Thailand and Hong Kong. Don't forget as well the 70.3 race that weekend in Langkawi is also the Asia Pacific Champs.I think it will go ahead but without the Australian,New Zealand or Indian contingent which will be tough for them as a lot of the management of IM Malaysia are Australian (same goes for the Goa race).

Laguna Phuket relies heavily of foreign athletes as historically it hasn't been too popular with Thai's as it is an expensive race.

The Vietnam 70.3 doesn't "need" any foreign athletes to go ahead as last year over one thousand locals raced.

So doesn't this end all the speculation?

If any races are held this year:

If you don't want to race, you won't have to...you can defer to 2021 no matter what.

If you do want to race, you race.


End of story here on ST?

Hold on there. Ironman 70.3 Lubbock is in 24 days and Ironman 70.3 Muncie in 38 days. Both appear to be going forward.

It ends the speculation for IMAZ...

This will really piss off the chicken littles who said no races until 2021. Now they’ll be hoping for a massive COVID outbreak among participants so they can say I told you so.

This will really piss off the chicken littles who said no races until 2021. Now they’ll be hoping for a massive COVID outbreak among participants so they can say I told you so.

This will really piss off the chicken littles who said no races until 2021. Now they’ll be hoping for a massive COVID outbreak among participants so they can say I told you so.

I actually sent them that very same question and got some robo-response that didn't answer anything at all. Just the typical we're monitoring the situation, blah, blah, blah.

I have IMChatt and IMAZ yet to be canceled but I've already decided I'm not racing this year. Too many variables and the back to racing guidance I've seen doesn't offer up enough real world practicality. So I plan to sit 2020 out and see how this all shakes out for 2021.

This will really piss off the chicken littles who said no races until 2021. Now they’ll be hoping for a massive COVID outbreak among participants so they can say I told you so.

Wait is there still a pandemic? According to everything I’ve seen in the last week with the protests/riots social distancing appears to officially be over. Pretty scary actually since I’m in the medical field directly dealing with covid.

I've done a lot of triathlon and there is a high % of volunteers in the older, covid-high risk, age brackets. Wonder how they found volunteers for Muncie.