The semi-marathon de Paris, also shifted two times and reprogrammed the 18 October, will not take place this year, said the organizer.
The pandemic has finally got the best of the Paris marathon. Planned for 15 November, has been cancelled due to the context of health, announced this Wednesday, ASO (Amaury Sport Organisation), the organiser of the event. The race of 42.195 km, which goes each year to the most emblematic places of the capital (starting on the Champs-Elysees, Opera, Bastille, Notre-Dame, Eiffel Tower…), originally scheduled on 5 April, had been postponed on two occasions (on 18 October and 15 November) because of a health crisis.
“Faced with the impossibility for many of the participants to make themselves available for these events and, in particular, those, many, coming from many foreign countries and is in conflict with the current difficulties of travel, it was decided to give appointment to all the fans of the sport of running by 2021,” said ASO in a press release.
other marathons cancelled in the world
“The competitors registered this year, if they wish, already registered for the editions of 2021”, also said the organization. The semi-marathon de Paris, also shifted two times and reprogrammed the 18 October, will not take place this year, said ASO. The cancellation of the event the paris, in addition to those marathons, the most prestigious of the planet (New York, Berlin, Boston, Chicago) and decimating totally the season on the road.
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Only the London marathon is always resistance with, however, a race reserved solely for elite athletes on October 4, on a circuit that acts as a “bubble” of isolation. A duel is anticipated between the olympic champion and world record holder kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, the winner in 2018 and 2019, and the Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele, the second time of the history, and the presence among the ladies of the Kenyan Brigid Koskei, who holds the world record.
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on Tuesday, Frankfurt, that has as Paris a label “gold” of the international Federation (a sort of second division of the road race events), had also preferred to give appointments in 2021.
