CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The 2020 Head of the Charles will be canceled, according to a tweet from the organization.
This year’s race will be turned into a “global remote event,” according to organizers.
Today we are announcing that the Head Of The Charles will not be held in-person on the Charles River this fall, and instead we will hold a global remote event. We evaluated a full range of options against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and USRowing guidelines, and consulted...
— Head Of The Charles (@HOCR) July 15, 2020
Similar to the virtual Boston Marathon, teams will be able to compete “by racing the length of the Head Of The Charles (4,702 meters) on their own body of water or on an erg, depending on what their specific situation is in mid October.”
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