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Guillaume MARION, Media365: published on Friday, October 22, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.
Scheduled for Sunday, November 7, the New York marathon will be deprived of foreign runners because of the “travel ban”, which ends … the day after the event.
Hard blow for the legendary New York marathon. While the 2020 edition was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2021 edition will be much less significant than in the past. Scheduled for Sunday, November 7, the race will initially have only 33,000 participants following various precautions related to Covid-19, against 55,000 usually, or about 60% compared to other years. In addition, the 50th edition of the New York Marathon will be contested … without foreign runners. Indeed, if the American government recently announced the lifting of the “travel ban”, it will not intervene until November 8, that is to say one day later. However, in the list of countries concerned by the latter, we find in particular all the European countries of the Schengen area, the United Kingdom, China and even India. The reopening of the borders of the United States, closed since March 2020, the day after the event will therefore deprive thousands of foreign runners from the competition.
See you in 2022 for foreign runners
Aware of this major concern, NYRR, the organization in charge of the race, has already communicated on the subject for possible foreign registrants. ” International participants who cannot travel to the United States due to the President’s ban (dating from Donald Trump’s tenure) will be eligible to postpone their entry into the 2022 New York Marathon », We can read in a press release published on the official website of the New York marathon. However, they will have to do this procedure between October 21 and November 3, 2021 and it will still cost $ 75. If some major marathons, such as the one in Berlin, London, Boston or even Paris have been able to take place more or less normally, the one that traditionally ends in Central Park will once again be affected by the coronavirus and its consequences. As a result, on the winners of the event, we could see some “surprise” winners in a few days., they would succeed Kenyans Joyciline Jepkosgei and Geoffrey Kamworor winners in 2019.
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