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– we Get moved over, so saves us. But I can almost not to think about what happens if we need to cancel. It will get way too big economic impact, ” says managing director Marit Karlsen in Ecotrail Oslo.
She organises Norway’s largest ultraløp as expected over 3000 participants at the starting line 30. may. Karlsen hoping in the longest that she avoids having to move or cancel the course due to korona epidemic.
– We will wait with the decision so long as we can. There is a lot of money on the games and the major consequences for many if we must change plans.
Ecotrail Oslo has several different distances and startområder and a demanding logistics. In the year there was an to rekordpåmelding before korona epidemic struck Norway.
Photo: Anette Torjusen / NRK A puzzle to find a new date
Karlsen says it rather not easy to move the event
– There is a lot to klaffe. We have applied to Oslo kommune for a to get arrange on the new date, but it is a real puzzle. We have f.ex. five different startområder and a target site that must be available.
Must Ecotrail Oslo cancelled fear Karlsen Norway’s largest ultraløp is history.
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Holmenkollstafetten is already cancelled and Sentrumsløpet in Oslo has been moved to October. But The review shows that many organizers, Karlsen, still sitting on the fence and hope that virusepidemien to slow down.
Webmaster in løpemagasinet Stamina, Olav Engen, believes this is a bad strategy.
Webmaster at Kondis and løpsarrangør, Olav Engen, recommends that you cancel instead of trying to move to the fall.
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My advice to you is that you are not trying to set a new date. You will not know if you can complete the course in the fall. Those who have advice should cancel the event.
Engen think most idrettslagene that organizes the race will survive a cancellation in years, but worse off are the commercial actors.
– Those who have small companies that promoters enkeltløp will definitely have to get problems, ” says Meadow, which even hosts Romeriksåsen on along and Bislett 24-hour.
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One of them that organizes the race without a sports team in the back is Gro Thomassen in Bodø.
The 15. august is scheduled for Nordlands largest street race is held with around 1,000 participants to the start.
The first two years expected participants long to sign up and the trend is the same in the year. In the meantime, the continuing costs to run.
Now Thomassen seen itself compelled to start kronerulling to salvage his business, which she amongst other things, Bodø Run Festival with.
– I’m still in a startup phase. I’ve had races in two years. I have no buffer to take off and have such an incredible desire to continue.
She is touched by the response she has received, and underlines that there are many who struggle and suffer the harder of the koronakrisen than what she does.
Thomassen think and still hope that it gets løpsfest in august.
I choose to schedule as long as I can. So will you rather make a decision when it starts to become major economic consequences.
She is, nevertheless, clear that the race is cancelled if it is still smittefare and health risks for the participants.
Should probably cancel in Tromsø for the first time
Further north in the region included the chief executive Nils I. Hætta in the Midnight Sun Marathon with on the daily updates from health authorities.
20. June was around 6000 participants from 70 nations stand on the starting line in Tromsø. But Hætta think they need to cancel the traditional maratonløpet for the first time.
Chief executive Nils In Hætta in the Midnight Sun Marathon in Tromsø, norway loses around 2 million on a cancellation. To move the course that requires the relationship is also not possible.
Photo: Gunnar Grindstein / NRK
It is my assessment, but the board of directors shall pass the decision the 31. march. So it is an now with a spredningstopp of the virus in June and July, it would be completely irresponsible to host an international race in the period, ” explains Hætta.
It is rather easy to move a race that has the midnight sun as its trademark.
Our last possible date of midnight sun is 21 July, so it will not.
Hætta says they lose just under 2 million if they’re going to have to cancel. The money he hopes they can get covered through a pool of 600 million from the government to the korona-affected kulturarrangementet.
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Also Norway’s third largest street race, the Bergen City Marathon, is affected hard by the Covid-19-epidemic. The race with over 10,000 participants should be held already 25. april, but the organizers are trying to move the race to the end of august.
But even without the claims about the midnight sun is not that easy to find suitable dates. Now, the plan 29. august.
We have considered several dates in the fall, but it is a tight program and the many who want to move their races. We are depending on that friidrettskretsen approves the new schedule, ” says event manager Jenny Jensen emphasises that they try to take into account other events.
Before koronaviruset reached Norway, and the government introduced the post-war strictest restrictions, there was a way to rekordpåmelding for Bergen City Marathon.
We lay an to 13.000 entries, but now it’s completely stopped up.
Jensen fear the consequences if they are going to have to cancel.
We are a sports club that is already suffering economically because of the koronaviruset. It will be critical if we are forced to cancel. We have no buffer money to take off, ” explains Jensen.
Creates conflicts by moving to autumn
Webmaster, Olaf the Meadow in Kondis encourage organizers to talk well together before you move the race from the spring and summer to autumn.
– When moving a race will most get considerably fewer participants. It looks like it gets really crowded in the autumn and it can be a lot of irritation between the organizers.
the Meadow refers to a recent example.
– Sentrumsløpet was, for example, agree with the circuit on the new date, but was still criticism for the selected the same date as several other races in the Oslo area. It is a kjempedilemma.
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