Ironman needs to take them to court first. And in not privy to the cancellation clause. Do you have hard facts about what it would be?
The point is, by the time the courts have their say the damage is done. Unfortunately, this is increasingly a common tactic of politicians on the left and right.
Says the peanut gallery since 1982..What you talk about is not new, I encountered it on the 2nd race held in Kona, and every year after I raced or went to watch(another 25 times)..Of course one day you may be right, but divided by the number of years the predictors were wrong, well is that really a true prediction?
It’s not a prediction, it’s a reality.
It’s been reality for decades, race carries on.
I got an email a few hours ago from ironman saying things are on. Well of course they are going to say that. They have a contract with the City of Nice and until the City of Nice activates whatever massive cancellation clause/force majeure clause, it is technically on. As there is no force majeure, the City would have to activate a major cancellation clause. I would imagine this is substantial as Ironman customers (us) have paid entry fees and booked flights and paid for accommodations, so I would imagine Ironman has a major set of penalties on the host city for a cancellation for convenience clause so that they can absorb their hit but also compensate customers.
In my case I am not too fussed. If it gets cancelled, i am going on vacation in Antibes and Nice for 9 days anyway. So for me it’s in the category of “nothing to worry about”.
Exactly. None of this illegal stuff has stopped populists from doing weird stuff like… I dunno tariffing everything in the world everywhere collecting billions in taxes, then a year later claiming you can’t figure out how to refund it back when the courts slap you down.
The reality is, Ironman can lawyer up and go against Nice or negotiate or walk away. But if Nice is actually playing for keeps the event doesn’t happen and Ironman is in limbo either way. If the mayor is making this a political football it’s not like he can’t make good on his promise to cancel the event. People are gonna notice.
Maybe he can claim the courts tied his back if there’s some emergency injunction process. Maybe he gets to renegotiate some savings and that’s all this is.
But it’s in every interest of Ironman to say nothing to see here, when this is potentially a massive issue.
yeah, I mean what the heck else are they going to say. Of course the official line is still on, right up until the point it’s not.
Thanks for a quick reaction @Ironmandad
French here
Éric Ciotti is fucking asshole straight from the far right. He was elected recently and to be frank the niçois and niçoises are going to pay it dearly (CHEH as we say)
The main issue here is that this rat is trying to cancel events that benefit local vendors a lot (as if Nice didn’t run on tourisme…) to lower the local fiscality… yeah right he just doesn’t want his buddies to pay their taxes.
I got a friend owning a Boulangerie in Nice. They don’t understand this décision. Modt likely he is pulling a Trump hoping Ironman will pay up.
Because let’s be honest: cancelling events to reduce taxes. What kind of stupid plan is this? This year you cancel events, what will you do next year when there are no more events to cancel…?
The far right is fucking cancer for society and democracy
No event –> less business for the boulangeries and everyone else –> smaller tax receipts 
If you think Nice doesn’t need events for its workers to survive, you are mistaken.
Nice is a city of old rich people. They aren’t the ones working the shops and small business. They own them.
They will benefit from the tax reduction yes.
But less event => less people => less business => less work.
And young people will have to leave and find work elsewhere.
Again, if the far right were fighting for the interest of lower classes that would be a known fact. Here, yet again, we have a full show down of far right favoring rich people over workers and we still find naive greedy people to believe otherwise….
To be fair, the last mayor Estrosi is in the middle of numerous judicial investigations and has a national reputation for being a crook. I was not the least bit surprised when reading the article about the last mayor having 3 (!) cars payed for. And I would not be surprised if there was some revelation about the contract with Ironman and other events including some payout or other contracts (security, logistics) to companies owned by Estrosi and friends. Not defending Ciotti here but the alternative wasn’t much better… The cutting in budget outlined here doesn’t seem egregious though, just wished he would have used the money in better ways than cutting property taxes.
Ciotti formed an opened alliance with the far right
Something Estrosi didn’t do
In my world Ciotti is far worse as in bubonic plaque is worst than … I don’t know, a vicious nasty virus
The irony is the far right type populists somehow hijack the minds of the masses and do exacty the things that penalize them. In any case, of course ironman is saying “it’s on”. But the only leverage Ironman has is invoke whatever “for convenience’” cancellation clauses exist. In every contract i have been involved in, the damages to be paid for Nice invoking the ‘at will’ is way worse than continuing thru on the contract to the end and not renewing. But the damage of cancelling events is to regular people who make less business.
For me I got a vacation booked to Antibes+Nice. I actually have an opening because Air Canada changed my flights on me to change them to something else and I can cancel my Airbnb and go on vacation somewhere else in France. We’ll see. I’m oK to just go on vacation as planned and just have fun training there.
given that St George stopped hosting races and now the nice issue, to me it does not sound like a great idea to put all eggs into 1 basket.
Three cars seems like small potatoes these days compared to taking a 747 from the Qataris, but hey, it looks like overt bribery has been turned into a global free for all.
OK sorry I could not resist. Let’s get back to talking sport. So Ironman does not even have a venue for 2027 and now they may need to find a venue for 2026 of cancel entirely? Maybe go back to Taupo and beg them to take Ironman again? They seemed to handle the logistics better than St. George/Lahti/Marbella?
Bring it back to Clearwater…. Nice beach. nice hotels. good airport.
Gosh….what a shame. Nice was a great experience. (I did worlds 70.3 in 2019)
But with major news media outlets talking about Europe potentially running out of jet fuel and already canceled flight routes, I wouldn’t be too excited for the travel. And if you haven’t already purchased your airline tickets, I can’t imagine they will be that affordable anymore. But that could all be hype. I just follow current events and it doesn’t look pretty out there in the world, especially with a cluster f*ck of a war in the middle east.
what if… world airlines shutdown for travel. How would we have a world championship created, it would have to be course time based with adjusting for altitude variations
Oh, I get to add another example of politics in sport for my sport sociology class…