4 deaths.... IIRC, there have been 7 or 8 in the last week.

There was initially really good uptake on the vaccination, then once they got through everyone who wanted it, it's been a lot harder to get the holdouts.

Most of the current new cases are from local transmission.

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2020 National Masters Champion - M50-54 - 50m Butterfly

As per Tri Can emails, for those who were on the lists for this years worlds that get cancelled, the spots will roll over to next year (the one exception are the multisport races which are in Spain now at the end of October/November, if you choose to race one of those races, your spot won't roll over, but if you decline, it will). For those who don't roll over a spot, it will be a lottery application for the remaining spots for Worlds. I suspect it'll be pretty easy to get a slot for Abu Dhabi, since the travel costs make it much more costly than Edmonton or Bermuda where people had originally signed up for. The harder deal will be for Sprint Worlds in Montreal in June, where there will likely be high demand in the lottery for slots.


Regardless of the COVID situation in Bermuda, it had been trending in this direction for a while, with limited flights as arilines are amping back up, the costs were many orders of magnitude higher than normal to get to BDA, and as a result, it was pricing many athletes, officials etc. out of being able to attend the race. Some federations were looking into charter flights to try and bring down the cost to make it feasible. That combined with the surging hospitalizations due to COVID, it's not shocking that the plug was pulled.

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Really sorry to hear about that Jason, I guess they're lucky to be out when things are going crazy. I hope all of your parents friends still there are alright. Many are bummed about the race but world triathlon can wait until a safer time and place....