OPINION: Comrades Marathon will survive without support of athletics federations
If Comrades is not sanctioned, ASA and its provincial members could ban participants from running sanctioned events, but if the national federation chose to suspend more than 20,000 runners, the backlash would be extreme and the entire funding model of the sport could collapse.
Races only need to be affiliated if they want to be officially recognised within provincial, national and international structures.
In its statement, ASA said: “All athletics events must be sanctioned through ASA and its recognised provincial structures.
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