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Runners attack the decorativeness enactment during the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 21, 2025, successful Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
BOSTON – The Boston Marathon had astir the aforesaid fig of no-shows arsenic past year, dispelling concerns that planetary runners would skip the race successful the look of accrued U.S. borderline scrutiny.
A full of 28,928 runners started the 129th variation of the marathon connected Monday, from a tract of 31,778 entrants. That leaves 2,850 who registered but did not transverse the starting enactment successful Hopkinton, oregon little than 9%.
In past year’s field, determination were 2,838 who failed to start.
To gain a Boston Marathon bib number, astir runners request to taxable a qualifying clip from different 26.2-mile race. Though galore dainty it arsenic a beingness extremity not to beryllium abandoned lightly, no-shows tin hap for reasons ranging from wounded to the 2010 Icelandic volcano eruption that unopen down flights and prevented hundreds of European runners from traveling to the U.S.
Although the contention was full, with entries from 128 countries, scattered reports indicated that immoderate overseas runners mightiness enactment distant for governmental reasons oregon fears of borderline hassles.
International visits to the U.S. person plummeted, with Canadians among those avoiding U.S. travel successful effect to President Donald Trump's tariff speech and threats of annexing the state arsenic a 51st state.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said past week that everyone should consciousness welcome.
“Regardless of what’s happening astatine different levels, and peculiarly present astatine the national level, successful Boston we invited everyone,” Wu said Friday astatine a nationalist information media briefing not acold from the decorativeness line. “We question to beryllium a location for everyone.”
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