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TimesLIVE reports that Ann Ashworth, race and operations manager at the Comrades Marathon Association (CMA), posted on her Instagram account on Wednesday evening that she had been fired by the board.
“My time at the CMA has come to an end. The board feels that I lack the necessary leadership and race management abilities to continue to serve,” said Ashworth, who was appointed last year after race director Rowyn James left. Ashworth, winner of the race in 2018, wrote that she offered to resign on “at least three occasions”, but her offers were not accepted. During her term the race paid out record prize money to winning athletes and was also praised for altering cut-off times. But there were also criticisms, from traffic congestion getting to the finish line in Pietermaritzburg to the shortage of goody bags at registration. “Given recent events this decision has not come as a surprise. For weeks now there have been rumblings among the naysayers that ‘the board would be dealing with me’”, Ashworth posted.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard at TimesLIVE
- Lees ook, ‘Comrades-raad boelie and breek my’, by Netwerk24 (toegang slegs vir intekenare)
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