Tokyo Marathon to be postponed to fall 2021 over coronavirus

Next year's Tokyo Marathon will be rescheduled from March to the fall due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, sources close to the matter said Wednesday.The Tokyo Marathon Foundation, the road race's organizer, will hold a board meeting on Friday to grant official approval for the decision, which is expected to include allowing some 38,000 general entrants to participate.According to the sources, the foundation abandoned the planned date of March 7 amid uncertainty over whether the pandemic would be contained in time and opted instead to hold the marathon after next summer's reschedu…READ FULL ARTICLE