(New York) Thousands of foreign runners, including European, British, Indian and Chinese nationals, will not be able to participate in the legendary New York Marathon on November 7, the eve of the reopening of the United States’ borders closed for a year and half.
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It is a discreet statement from the organizers of the race, NYRR, published Friday evening on their website, which acknowledged that the announcement that same Friday by the White House of the reopening of the borders on November 8 would prevent de facto to thousands of aliens run through the streets of New York on November 7th.
“International participants who cannot travel to the United States due to the President’s ban (dating from Donald Trump’s presidency in the spring of 2020, Editor’s note) will be eligible to postpone their entry into the marathon New York City of 2022, ”the statement read.
However, the rejected participants will have to “claim” their postponement to the 2022 edition between “October 21 and November 3, 2021”, against the sum of “75 dollars”. Before I can re-register early next year.
Any cancellation for the 2021 edition will not be refunded.
After more than eighteen months of closing its borders, the United States announced on Friday that it will reopen them on November 8 so that millions of travelers will not be able to enter due to the pandemic, but on condition that they are vaccinated against COVID-19.
The organizers of the marathon referred to the list drawn up by the American health authorities of the countries concerned for a year and a half by the travel ban, unless there is an overriding reason: these are all the European countries of the Schengen area, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Brazil, South Africa, India, China and Iran.
The New York marathon – which ends in Central Park after crossing the great bridges of New York – was canceled in 2020, a terrible year for the megalopolis ravaged by the pandemic. The 2021 edition, the 50e, was to welcome some 33,000 runners, or 60% of the 53,000 registered in 2019.
Before the pandemic, the legendary marathon created in 1970 attracted more than 250,000 tourists each year, for an economic impact estimated at $ 415 million in 2015.
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