The London Marathon that was postponed over the Coronavirus pandemic, could be staged with elite athletes only, says race director Hugh Brasher.- By Gerald Gekara.
The event that was scheduled to be on Sunday, has been moved to 4th October because of the pandemic. The event that was graced by nearly 43,000 runners in 2019, will now host champion Eliud Kipchoge and Kenenisa Bekele.
“We hope we can welcome them back in October but at this stage we just don’t know what is going to happen, We have to look at it in totality, with three quarters of a million spectators, the medical side, the charities.”
The Berlin Marathon, along with London one of the sport’s six ‘majors’, will not go ahead as planned on 27 September after Germany extended a ban on large-scale gatherings until 24 October.
Brasher said he is in touch with other major race directors and some “radical ideas” have been discussed, but he did not reveal further details of those suggestions.
