I'd agree they don't need to decide anything yet. Things will look very different in a few months. Not necessarily predicting anything but July/August is a long way off in the time scale of this sort of thing.

If things aren't improved significantly by then I've read different things. One was that a delay to later in 2020 was more practical because something about the Olympics is agreed for a calendar year. The other was that a two year delay was more likely because you need to arrange TV schedules and next years TV sporting schedule would already be put in place.

Cancelled: Rotterdam marathon, 5th of april. Unsurprising though they claimed the opposite just this morning on their site.

Disappointing though, would’ve been my first. And several Dutch athletes wanted to qualify for Olympic games.

As of yesterday on the Ironman Texas Facebook page Ironman was advertising the remaining 10 unsold spots. It would be rather disingenuous for them to be selling the spots if they knew they were definitively going to be cancelling the event. In addition, I saw the following communication someone posted:

Hi,
Thank you for reaching out, we understand and appreciate your concerns regarding COVID-19
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public health emergency of international concern as it relates to the coronavirus outbreak. In response, and to prevent the virus from spreading further, governments are taking a wide set of measures including limitations on gatherings, events, and school activities, as well as travel and entry restrictions.
We are monitoring the situation with public health officials and authorities, including
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to follow and implement guidelines dictated by health agencies and governments.
At this stage, the Texas Department of Health does not propose altering arrangements for public events, and therefore we will be proceeding with the IRONMAN Texas event as planned. We want to remind you that all transfer, deferral and refund policies remain in effect and can be found here - https://www.ironman.com/im-texas-register
Should you wish you cancel your entry, we kindly ask you to contact your travel insurance provider to discuss your options.
Kind Regards,
The IRONMAN Texas Team
Mara
Athlete Services Coordinator

Granted ultimately it may not be Ironman's decision to make whether to allow the event or not but as of right now it appears they are still planning on holding the event. A decision to cancel does not need to be made for at least another 4-5 weeks by which time we will know a lot more.

Which lifetime? I am at citicentre.

Re-read your post in, say, 30 days. I hope you are right. I think you will be very wrong.

Cinco

Replying to the thread, not an individual post:

It looks like CA Gov. Gavin Newsom will call for a moratorium of any public event drawing more than 250 people in one place.

More here.

So, that would appear to put the kibosh on Oceanside (and sure, we’ll wait for an official stataement), and any number of events until the virus is deemed contained. On my own race schedule that would include Mountains2Beach Marathon, IM Santa Rosa 70.3 and the full, assuming the bar on events extends well into the summer.

Beyond endurance sports, if this happens, we’re talking Dodgers and Angels baseball, conventions and conferences, parades, and the list goes on and on. Yesterday was the first day my employer, a large public media company, sent everybody home to work remotely for the duration to keep us and our visitors from infecting each other.

I can’t think of a public health crisis this significant since the spread of HIV and AIDS. I hope people will take seriously the potential for this illness to harm them and their relatives, and take sincere measures to reduce the early spread while treatment and prevention options are still being developed.

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Sharon McN
@IronCharo
#TeamZoot
Clif Bar Pace Team 2003-2018

Out of curiosity, where do you see updates from her? On which pages?

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Next races on the schedule: none at the moment

There is not even the slightest chance of the Giro going ahead, unless as a national moral building exercise..... but that's not going to work with no spectators on the streets to cheer it on.
Even if Italy somehow had everything under control in 8 weeks time, the logistics would likely be a mess, and the appetite for the big crowds on the street would be zero. I think Italy will be a while recovering from this psychologically as well as economically. They are watching countries like the UK, allowing football matches and multi-day horse racing festivals with huge crowds, and can't believe they're squandering the lessons that could be learned from Italy.
Their neighbors, Slovenia, and possibly others, are building walls on the borders. There's a lot of fear, and disbelief.

On the Oceanside 70.3 Facebook page, there's a post from 2 March entitled Yo'll have plenty of spectators to cheer you on at the Pier!

In the 45+ comments there's one that say's How likely is this to be cancelled? In the responses you'll see a few from Gina.

21 minutes ago updated by Gina to say still nothing different their end, talks ongoing with multiple agencies.

Got it.

I think that after the last night's speech from Gavin Newsom, the likelihood of the event happening is now very low. Just my hunch.

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Next races on the schedule: none at the moment

So not fully understanding what powers the Governor of California has, Newsom seems to be calling for a restriction not actually implementing one?

Does he have to go to The Assembly to seek this as a state law or does it need to go to The Senate?

I'm guessing this can be proposed and voted on pretty quickly.

Can we also try to keep track on here which races that are canceled and if/how they are issuing refunds?

NYC half marathon was canceled and race organizers will offer either an entry fee refund or a guaranteed non-complimentary entry into next year’s race


I understand a small event not issuing refunds but for corporations as big as Ironman I can not imagine them justifying keeping the crazy high fees they are charging without even holding an event. This will become particularly relevant if/when this expands in to the summer. I´m sure Ironman has an insane amount of deffered revenue on the books but to maintain the integrity of the brand they should at least have to refund athletes for events that do not occur

On top of the California announcement, the military is going to have zero reason to want a bunch of civilians from everywhere on base at this time. I will keep training but have zero expectation of doing Oceanside. For a while it looks like my 2020 race season will be a little 5K I did with a free entry from my employer.

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The first time man split the atom was when the atom tried to hold Jens Voigt's wheel, but cracked.

Ride Flanders the pre Tour of Flanders race sportive postponed.

Not sure if anyone posted this so far, from Ironman.com/updates

She should just fucking cancel already. What about all the people being left out due to the travel ban? What about all of those people feeling at risk with having to travel from out of state? They should give everyone a chance to cancel their AirBnBs, plane tickets, etc.

I'm guessing all of these events have some sort of insurance that will help them if there's a legit reason why they can't hold the race. I'm sure the paperwork is a lot easier if the State of California says they can't have the race than if IM or Oceanside decides to cancel on their own.

https://www.endurancesportswire.com/...-due-to-coronavirus/



This is a list of events that have cx'd.

Supposed to be updated daily. IDK if that will happen or not though

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Brian Stover USAT LII
Accelerate3 Coaching
Insta

Oceanside - I'm guessing they are working on a later date to try and save the race this year, just like Greece 70.3. I'm sure they know at this point that the race will be canceled, but I don't think they will announce it until they get a later date pinned down. Man, what a big let down, was just starting to get in shape for the race.

As of now, USAT is keeping collegiate club nationals. That is definitely going to change, as a majority of colleges have already shut down club sports for the rest of the semester- barring students from practicing or traveling to races. So Collegiate nationals will likely be canceled in the next few days

In fairness, Houston Rodeo does have the RodeoRun about 4,000 people run it. It went off as scheduled on Feb 29th.

Sadly, I agree. Race is three weeks away now, nothing is going to improve dramatically in that time period.

And i agree with those that believe it’s our responsibility to limit participation in mass events in order to slow the inevitable spread to allow our medical system some breathing room. I may just self cancel and be done with it

I think that if Europe is an indicator, over the next three weeks things will get worse, especially if they decide to keep pushing forward and having these events. I hope Gina comes out soon and announces that the event has been post-poned to protect the local community.

The irony with that is the better these containment efforts work, the more likely he is to say, "See,it was nothing".