The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Boston (and Hopkinton to Boston course), MA · Massachusetts
- Level
- Organizer
- Issued
- 2020-05-28 May 28, 2020
- In force
- May 28, 2020 (the notice's date)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Hotels, Travel and Tourism SEC-06
Operative words
"The @BAA has announced that the 124th Boston Marathon will be held as a virtual event, following Boston Mayor Martin Walsh's cancellation of the marathon as a mass participation road running event due to the COVID-19 pandemic."... "While we cannot bring the world to Boston in September, we plan to bring Boston to the world" (B.A.A. CEO Tom Grilk) (Ex. SEC-06-GM-041)
The organizer's notice
AP via Boston.com, 'The 2020 Boston Marathon has been canceled' (May 28, 2020), quoting the B.A.A.
Notes
2020: Postponed Mar. 13, 2020 to Sept. 14; cancelled May 28, 2020 as a mass-participation road race and run as a virtual event, the first cancellation in 124 years. 2021: Run Oct. 11, 2021 with a field reduced to 20,000 (reported); Massachusetts' capacity orders had ended May 29, 2021 and the Boston Public Health Commission face-covering order applied from Aug. 27, 2021. Usual dates: Patriots' Day, April 20, 2020 (postponed to Sept. 14, 2020); 2021 held Oct. 11, 2021. Scale: about 30,000 runners and about one million spectators in a normal year; the race generates an estimated $211 million a year (AP via Boston.com, Ex. SEC-06-GM-041). Venue orders 2020: SEC-07-019, MA-008, MA-019, MA-021, MA-023, MA-026, MA-025, MET-BOS-001, MET-BOS-007. Venue orders 2021: MA-045, MA-048, MA-049, MET-BOS-013.