TERMS & CONDITIONS OF ENTRY IN WTC EVENTS AND TRAINING
1. Warning: Participation in the Event and Training can be inherently dangerous. Risks including but not only overexertion, equipment failure, dehydration, serious accidents, and course and weather conditions can and often do happen which may result in me being personally injured or my property being damaged. I have voluntarily read and understood this Warning and accept and assume the inherent risks in the Events and Training.
2. Where the format is a Virtual Event – you understand that there will be no course marshals, traffic management or volunteers present, and you are responsible for ensuring the course selected is safe to participate at the time of participations and as such entry is at your own risk.
3. Exclusion of Liability: Except where provided or required by law and such cannot be excluded, I agree that it is a term of my entry to the Event (if accepted) that the WTC is absolved from all liability however arising from injury or damage however caused (whether fatal or otherwise) arising out of my participation in the Event.
4. Release and Indemnity: In consideration of the WTC accepting my application for entry to the Event I: (a) release and forever discharge the WTC from all Claims that I may have or may have had but for this release arising from or in connection with my participation in the Event; and (b) indemnify and hold harmless the WTC to the extent permitted by law in respect of any Claims by any person including another participant in the Event arising as a result of or in connection with my participation in the Event. In this clause 3 “Claims” means and includes any action, suit, proceeding, claim, demand, damage, penalty, cost or expense however arising but does not include a claim in respect of any action, suit, etc made by any person entitled to make a claim under a relevant Event insurance policy.
5. Fitness to Participate: I declare that I am medically and physically fit and able to participate in the Event. I am not and must not be a danger to myself or to the health and safety of others. With respect to the COVID 19 Pandemic – I agree that I will not attend events or training, if I have any respiratory symptoms, if I have travelled overseas in the past 14 days, if I have returned from a hot zone in the last 14 days, if I have been instructed to self-isolate or are awaiting a COVID 19 test results or have deemed a close contact. I will consent to having my temperature taken at events, as the club deems necessary. I agree to follow all Vic Gov requirements, and to follow the club COVID plan at all times when at club sanctioned events and training. Failure to do so, may result in disqualification from the event and exclusion for future events.
6. Consent to medical treatment: I consent to receiving any medical treatment that the Event organisers or their authorized representatives consider necessary or desirable during or after the Event.
7. Prevailing conditions: The Event and the conduct of, and participation in the Event may be affected by weather and associated conditions. Given there is often an element of the “luck of the prevailing conditions” in entering and competing in the Event I acknowledge and agree the Event organisers cannot control the weather and associated conditions. I accept that in the event of extreme weather conditions the WTC reserves the right to alter the format of, shorten, or cancel the Event in the interest of competitor safety. I acknowledge that the WTC will use all reasonable efforts to conduct the Event in the planned format if safe to do so. Should prevailing weather conditions force any change I accept that the WTC is not obliged to provide any refund to me, nor to provide a transfer for me to another WTC event, nor to restage the Event as weather and associated conditions are beyond the control of the WTC.
8. Team Coordinators are accepting this declaration on behalf of all team members
9. I give permission for my photo to be taken during the race and used for promotional or advertorial purposes, including but not limited to display on the WTC website, social media, print media and flyers.
10. I have read, understood, acknowledge and agree to the above declaration including the warning, exclusion of liability, release and indemnity.
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