2023-04-22 11:36:21
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Rent explosion, galloping food prices, exorbitant energy costs. Inflation is running at a rapid pace, putting the country out of breath. Now all participants of the 40th Vienna City Marathon are feeling the effects: Due to inflation, the running distance will be extended by 10 percent this year.
VIENNA – It was a veritable marathon of negotiations that ended on a positive note just a few days before the start of the annual Viennese running spectacle. “It can’t be that the entry fee increases from year to year, but the running distance always stays the same length,” criticizes Klaus Tschabrun, chief negotiator of the official runners’ union RÖCHEL (Austrian club of hurdles, speed skaters and long-distance runners). .
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