Economist wrote:
Ironman Michigan (Traverse City) screwed me over. All the local triathlons have been great. Almost all let me defer to 2022 if there was a conflict and two gave me refunds. I did multiple Iornman events each year for well over a decade. If Ironman had just refunded me, I would pick up again in 2022 and continued to race. Instead, I'll just stick with locally run races.
And yes I'm well aware Ironman gives zero fucks about losing my business.
We were entered in 3 European 70.3s, all of which were eventually cancelled.
The earliest was a straight cancellation and moved to 2021. No choice but to “defer”.
Races 2 and 3 were later in the season and were initially postponed to the same weekend in September. If the races had gone ahead we wouldn’t have been able to do them.
both.
IM don’t give a sherbet about us. It looks like most European races aren’t likely to go ahead this year so who knows what will happen with 2nd deferrals.
If the rumours about IM having pandemic insurance is true they are just laughing at us.