{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"ThrowForward Thursday 179: Cape Town Marathon Cancelled","description":"Sport can't fight weather <BR>The 2025 edition of the Cape Town Marathon was cancelled due to strong winds making the course unsafe. It's not the first major sporting event to be affected by weather; and it won't be the last.  <BR>Back in 2020, I was due to run the London Marathon. It was cancelled due to Covid, and we were encouraged to run a 42.2km distance in the 24 hours of the day of the marathon to earn our finisher's medal. I did that in the Covid-emptied streets of Johannesburg.  <BR>We've talked about this before in ThrowForward Thursday: <UL><LI>Ep 11: Climate change am-dram moment - https:\/\/youtu.be\/J6QurefheZo  <LI>Ep 42: Olympics and climate change - https:\/\/youtu.be\/pgl9UMFPcd4  <\/UL> <BR>Organisers of major sporting events will need to plan for weather related disruptions - not as Plan B or C, but as an expected Plan A.  <BR>This is what our team at TomorrowToday calls an 'Elephant in the Boardroom' - a known, high impact issue that people are not yet taking seriously enough. The cancellation of a major marathon, impacting tens of thousands of people, is a reminder that this is our new normal. ","author_name":"Graeme Codrington's Future of Work","author_url":"http:\/\/www.graemecodrington.com","html":"