The spread of the coronavirus caused organizers of next month’s 2020 Tokyo Marathon to downsize their massive race to a small field of elite runners.
has spurred organizers of next month’s 2020 Tokyo Marathon to downsize their massive race to only a small field of elite runners.
As one of the “world majors” — the six largest marathons across the globe — Tokyo was expecting about 38,000 competitors to take the streets of the capital city on March 1. The field will now be winnowed to several hundred. The announcement came after reports that six more Japanese residents had tested positive for the new coronavirus, or COVID-19, over the weekend.
“Now that cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed within Tokyo, we cannot continue to launch the event within the scale we originally anticipated,” organizers said in a statement.
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