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No Penn Relays for the First Time Since the 1800s
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Actually kind of surprised this wasn’t announced earlier:
🎴JUST ANNOUNCED🎴
2020 Penn Relays canceled due to evolving coronavirus public health threat
📰 https://t.co/ODPCWt58Uu pic.twitter.com/l3p9MXOp8J
— Penn Relays (@pennrelays) March 16, 2020
They’ve run this thing nonstop since 1895, if you can believe it. This will be the first time in 125 years that the event doesn’t take place.
From the press release:
In its place, Penn will endeavor to host a substitute track meet at a later date in late May or early June.
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The scope of the track meet will not be the standard Penn Relays format. The three-day event will shorten into a one-day event designed to provide the opportunity for youth, high school, and open runners to persevere and enjoy a competitive and festive atmosphere which they might have missed this spring.
Bummer.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com