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Huge Interest in Leuven Year-End Race Crashes Registration Website

From VRT NWS · () Dutch

Translated from Dutch and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Registration for Leuven’s Eindejaarscorrida caused the event website to crash as runners sought places in the 4, 8 and 12-kilometre races.
  • Organizer Johan De Haes said the event’s popularity had grown each year, while the organization works with its provider to restore the site.

Leuven runners moved so quickly to secure places in the Eindejaarscorrida that the event’s website went down as soon as registration opened.

Participants can sign up for 4, 8 or 12 kilometres through the city centre. The race has sold out faster in recent years, and last year’s 12-kilometre places disappeared almost immediately.

Leuven clearly wants this.

— Johan De HaesThe race organizer described the strong demand for registration.

“We had not expected this, even so,” organizer Johan De Haes said. “Leuven clearly wants this.”

The organizers are working with their provider to bring the website back online. They had arranged additional capacity, but it proved insufficient. De Haes said the organization remains in contact with the provider.

We had not expected this, even so.

— Johan De HaesHe acknowledged that the added website capacity could not handle the immediate interest.
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Originally published by VRT NWS in Dutch. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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