Racing roadkill
Guru
Or move it to Sweden. They’ve dealt with it as I would, If I was in the ‘captains seat’.
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lazybloke
Priest of the cult of Chris Rea
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Yessss. If you want to discuss Covid 19 with any seriousness there is a more appropriate thread.
Before you go there, I suggest you look at the graph of deaths in Sweden, which has a familiar steepening curve. Their approach has clearly NOT "dealt with it".
Racing roadkill
Guru
It’s actually fair that they have cancelled it now, rather than later. If they’d left it much longer to make the call, it would have been a lot worse.
Racing roadkill
Guru
what, these graphs you mean? They show that the Swedes very much did the right thing, and have dealt with it, without a draconian lock down, so the Ride London organisers perhaps should have moved it to Sweden ( which would be fine if you live in Sweden ).
lazybloke
Priest of the cult of Chris Rea
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I wrote that on 31st March; the Swedish trend had been worsening at that time....
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It was the most sensible thing to cancel ride london.I was hoping they could defer riders for this year for the next time(whenever that will be!)but it's not to be.
steverob
Guru
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The "sad" like was for them having cancelled it after I'd got in via the ballot, although it was definitely the right thing to do. And talking of right things to do - full refunds for all as well, no cop outs; compare that to some of the stunts other companies have tried to pull (and I'm not just talking about those in the cycling world either).
vickster
Legendary Member
No, although if it does happen, maybe they’ll offer 2020 entrants first dibs. I’d deferred from last year and to be honest my health isn’t improving. I’m happy to have a refund and then an option to reconsider for 2021 if it does happen
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Just so I understand, if you got a place for 2020 in the ballot, they'll refund you but you can't carry it forward and will have to enter the next ballot again if you want to do 2021 (or whenever it restarts).
Izzat right?
Edit. Yes it is. Just read the website.
https://www.prudentialridelondon.co...20-prudential-ridelondon-festival-of-cycling/
Will people with places in 2020 Prudential RideLondon be given priority in the 2021 ballot?
No. We cannot offer 2020 riders priority places in a future event as it is quite possible that the entry system and events may be entirely different.
I suppose that's fair enough. Making a clean break with cancellation and refund is probably the best thing to do under the circs.
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Racing roadkill
Guru
That would be a logistical nightmare. It’s far easier to do what they have done.
Racing roadkill
Guru
Yep.
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- Essex
The great north run has been cancelled but they are offering the 55,000 runner refunds or entry for next year.I still don't understand why the ride london organisers could not have offered this?
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
They don't have next year fully planned, there may be some big changes ahead.
As they said on their website We cannot offer 2020 riders priority places in a future event as it is quite possible that the entry system and events may be entirely different.
Racing roadkill
Guru
As it stands, they really can’t say how it might happen in future. They are holding on the slim chance that a vaccine will be developed and deployed by next year.