BAA refuses to give out refunds for runners testing positive for Covid prior to the race. As if somehow the pandemic disappeared and they provide no other avenues of support. They are basically stealing peoples money.
Run a different marathon, stop caring about a "BQ" because it does not care about you!
If you’re testing positive within a week of the race, your money has been spent and is sitting there on the course waiting for you.
It sucks to lose your registration fee for a race you can’t run, but this is no different from the way things have always worked in the case of injury.
If you were *really* concerned about the pandemic, why are you registering for a mass-participation marathon in the first place?
The business world is full of fake people kissing arse to make a sale. Then as soon as the customer leaves they all talk how stupid the customer was to believe all the sale propoganda.
"Participants have the opportunity to purchase registration insurance at the point of registration. Participants who elected to purchase registration insurance, offered by RegShield, will be able to have entry fees refunded for multiple reasons including loss of job, pregnancy, illness, and injury. Refunds may only be eligible for those who purchase the insurance policy at the point of registration."
I was supposed to do a bigger race this winter & couldn't go because of a death in the family. No refund policy. I get it but would it have been hard to move the registration for next year? Same with this situation & Boston. Runner does everything right. COVID obviously isn't over even if America has decided it is. Just let them in next year. This should be one of those don't advertise it but do the right thing.
"Participants have the opportunity to purchase registration insurance at the point of registration. Participants who elected to purchase registration insurance, offered by RegShield, will be able to have entry fees refunded for multiple reasons including loss of job, pregnancy, illness, and injury. Refunds may only be eligible for those who purchase the insurance policy at the point of registration."
Sorry.
POLICY COVERAGE DOES NOT INCLUDE: If the B.A.A. and event organizers cancel the race due to factors outside of their control; If the B.A.A. and event organizers disqualify an athlete based on our COVID-19 mitigation protocols; If the athlete does not attend the event because they are concerned about the coronavirus (COVID-19), are self-isolating with or without a positive COVID-19 test, experience a delay or cancellation of travel due to COVID-19, or other non-COVID-19 communicable diseases leading to quarantines or travel restrictions.
"Participants have the opportunity to purchase registration insurance at the point of registration. Participants who elected to purchase registration insurance, offered by RegShield, will be able to have entry fees refunded for multiple reasons including loss of job, pregnancy, illness, and injury. Refunds may only be eligible for those who purchase the insurance policy at the point of registration."
Sorry.
POLICY COVERAGE DOES NOT INCLUDE: If the B.A.A. and event organizers cancel the race due to factors outside of their control; If the B.A.A. and event organizers disqualify an athlete based on our COVID-19 mitigation protocols; If the athlete does not attend the event because they are concerned about the coronavirus (COVID-19), are self-isolating with or without a positive COVID-19 test, experience a delay or cancellation of travel due to COVID-19, or other non-COVID-19 communicable diseases leading to quarantines or travel restrictions.
Did you purchase insurance and was the claim denied? I've had friends get their registration fees back through race insurance after testing positive for COVID and claiming the illness qualification.
"Participants have the opportunity to purchase registration insurance at the point of registration. Participants who elected to purchase registration insurance, offered by RegShield, will be able to have entry fees refunded for multiple reasons including loss of job, pregnancy, illness, and injury. Refunds may only be eligible for those who purchase the insurance policy at the point of registration."
Sorry.
POLICY COVERAGE DOES NOT INCLUDE: If the B.A.A. and event organizers cancel the race due to factors outside of their control; If the B.A.A. and event organizers disqualify an athlete based on our COVID-19 mitigation protocols; If the athlete does not attend the event because they are concerned about the coronavirus (COVID-19), are self-isolating with or without a positive COVID-19 test, experience a delay or cancellation of travel due to COVID-19, or other non-COVID-19 communicable diseases leading to quarantines or travel restrictions.
That's only if yiu haven't actually tested positive,if you test positive it will be accepted.
It only cost me $16 as an international runner so would have been cheaper for an American,your choice for not paying it.
Explain how this is different from any other injury or illness pre-C19?
If you got a the flu or an injury pre-covid and decided not to race, that decision was on you. If you wanted to race through illness/injury because you thought you could manage, that was your call to make. With covid, even if you have zero symptoms, you're barred from racing if you test positive. That's the difference.
"Participants have the opportunity to purchase registration insurance at the point of registration. Participants who elected to purchase registration insurance, offered by RegShield, will be able to have entry fees refunded for multiple reasons including loss of job, pregnancy, illness, and injury. Refunds may only be eligible for those who purchase the insurance policy at the point of registration."
Sorry.
POLICY COVERAGE DOES NOT INCLUDE: If the B.A.A. and event organizers cancel the race due to factors outside of their control; If the B.A.A. and event organizers disqualify an athlete based on our COVID-19 mitigation protocols; If the athlete does not attend the event because they are concerned about the coronavirus (COVID-19), are self-isolating with or without a positive COVID-19 test, experience a delay or cancellation of travel due to COVID-19, or other non-COVID-19 communicable diseases leading to quarantines or travel restrictions.
Pretty sure the policy exclusion refers to if someone didn't meet mitigation measures, such as didn't show prof of vaccination or refused to wear a mask on the bus and was refused transportation to the start. Having an illness, including COVID or the flu or whatever would be covered by insurance.
The answer to the OP is that you should have bought the insurance. If you were sick and didn't go, you did the right thing, but BAA would never have known about it if you went an ran anyway because testing requirement was not part of their COVID mitigation protocols.
I disagree with OP’s complaint here but I do have to say that I don’t believe the B.A.A. cares as much about experience of runners as most marathons since they know anyone who qualifies will drop everything and flock to Boston to run the marathon. It is a nice race, but it not as nice as advertised. The race experience is highly over commercialized. And the logistics are a nightmare. The only other major I’ve run is Chicago which does a much better job in terms of athlete experience. Boston needs to be better.
What would be the purpose of banditing? If he decided to run, he could have done it legitimately with his bib, since there was no testing requirement, only a vaccination requirement.
Sometimes sh-- happens. Obviously in retrospect, I/many others who contracted COVID close to the race should have gotten race insurance if they really are honoring that. The self-isolating thing in that clause threw me and is why I didn't get it. I'm still not sure why someone with COVID isn't excluded, because I read it as COVID not being part of the policy. You win some, you lose some. But I guess good for the insurance for covering people.