PARIS (Reuters) – This year’s Paris Marathon has been cancelled, according to organizers on Wednesday, as France is fighting a resurgence of the COVID-19 virus.
The marathon was originally scheduled to take place on April 5, but postponed until November 15 due to the pandemic.
“After searching for everything at the event, we felt compelled, throughout the city of Paris, to cancel the 2020 edition of the Schneider Electric Marathon in Paris and the Paris Breakfast Run,” the organizers said in a statement.
“Given the difficulty that many runners, especially foreigners, have had to be made to be hadArray … was that it would be majorArray … for those involved who were setting up the Schneider Electric Marathon in Paris in 2021.
We will paint throughout the city of Paris to combine a 2021 edition that brings together the most passionate runners in the most beautiful streets of the world.
The Paris Marathon, one of the most popular occasions on the global racing calendar that attracts more than 40,000 participants, is the latest to be interrupted by the global epidemic of the new coronavirus.
In June, the New York City Marathon was canceled, while the Boston Marathon also defected for the first time in its 124-year history.
The Berlin and Chicago Marathon Grands have also been cancelled while the London Marathon, scheduled for April, was postponed to October 4 and will be held as an elite event.
France has reported more than 236,000 infections and 30,000 COVID-19 deaths.
Reporting through Sudip Kar-Gupta and Arvind Sriram; Editing through Tothrough Chopra and Ken Ferris
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