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COVID-19: Organisers seek smaller-scale Tokyo Marathon

Feb 17, 2020

Image: Kyodo News

Reports say the Tokyo Marathon could be held at a smaller scale, to limit the race's impact on the coronavirus outbreak. 

Instead of opening the race to the general public, organisers COULD limit the run to elite athletes only.

This will reduce the number of participants from 38 thousand, to only 200.

The run, on March 1st, is a warm-up event to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. 

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