This year and most likely next year there will be no competitions. We don’t even need to say why. What is happening, however, has a special feature: it has made us all more alike because it involves each of us.<\/p>\n
And, along with us, it also involves all the world competitions, including the largest and most partiicipated ones. Like Tokyo (first) and then Boston and London and Berlin, all the majors were cancelled and turned into virtual races.<\/p>\n
These include the New York City Marathon, which is being run next Sunday. This, by the way, was also supposed to be a particularly important edition as the 50th. It will be curious to see how the next one will be numbered: will it be the 51st or will they decide to elide this unfortunate 2020 by pretending it never existed? We don’t know. What is certain is that, like many others, the NY City Marathon will be held but in a virtual form: everyone from his or her home (or rather: from the streets of his or her home) and, unfortunately, everyone far from New York City.<\/p>\n