London Marathon organisers fear ‘unofficial’ runs if race is cancelled

• Runners could race anyway in event of coronavirus cancellation
• ‘There could be a lot of other problems if it doesn’t take place’

Fears that runners would try to run the London Marathon even if the event were cancelled because of coronavirus have led organisers and other public bodies involved to conclude it should go ahead unless the crisis caused by the illness becomes acute.

The New York race was cancelled in 2012 in the aftermath of super storm Sandy, which had killed an estimated 40 people in the city, 48 hours before the race was due to start, but many runners had travelled over and decided to run it unofficially anyway, in a route around Central Park.

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