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Andrew Messick - Retired or Asked To Step Down? The Hard Questions on Hamburg, Ironman World Champs, Race Entry Cost & Lots More.
The Triathlon Hour
The Problem With Deferrals and Transfers
Ironman has changed and liberalized its policies a lot over the years. What we don't want to happen is for somebody to sign up for four races knowing they're only going to do one. Our professional athletes in general sign up for about three times as many races as they actually go to. If we had policies that let anybody get their money back seven days before a race, our fear is that people would sign up forFour or five races, knowing they were only going to doing one. And because a lot of our races are in really high demand, that creates a huge problem for us. It's not a huge thing for us to administer. We've got a full-time
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