Sport Events Cancelled due to Coronavirus Outbreak

[heywoodu 15,147]

53 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

Not really. You can call the standings at the cancellation point final.

 

Mass hysteria has more power than common sense these days. The Spanish influenza in 1918-19 didn't cause the cancellation of Indianapolis 500 or the baseball season back in USA and it was far bigger than the current coronavirus outbreak

 

Polish ice hockey league will probably play the semi-finals that are due to start on Saturday behind closed doors and nobody thinks about cancelling the entire season.

The Spanish flu didn't cause that many mass cancellations, correct. If it did, we might have been a lot less familiar with it nowadays since it might have caused way less damage. 

 

Cancelling events now is, sadly, simply the only sane way to go. If and how organizers of leagues determine champions now is a different matter.

Edited March 11, 2020 by heywoodu

[Monzanator 4,507]

5 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

The Spanish flu didn't cause that many mass cancellations, correct. If it did, we might have been a lot less familiar with it nowadays since it might have caused way less damage. 

 

Cancelling events now is, sadly, simply the only sane way to go. If and how organizers of leagues determine champions now is a different matter.

 

Hiding your head in the sand and pretending that solves the problem isn't sane by any means. The anti-vaccination movement has done more damage than anything else to prevent learning from the past pandemic disease outbreaks. Not to mention the only thing humanity leans from history is that it doesn't learn from the history.

 

Italy has had one of the lowest vaccination rates in Europe before coronavirus and now it's the most affected country in Europe. Coincidence? Italy didn't believe measles or rubella are real threat anymore, well, do you think they believe COVID is a real threat now?

 

This outbreak will carry a lot of positives once it's contained. The anti-vaccination morons will have a hard time explaining that contagious diseases don't exist anymore so nobody needs a vaccination

[Agger 1,663]

Let's just use this one...

 

[heywoodu 15,147]

52 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

Hiding your head in the sand and pretending that solves the problem isn't sane by any means.

 

I have never disagreed with that.

[hckošice 14,836]

Fuck ! Fuck  Fuck !!!! FUCK !!!!!

 

The Slovak Ice Hockey Extraliga season 2019/20 has just been officially stopped and completely cancelled, we was 3 rounds before the end of the regular season and prior of one of the most followed sport event in the country the extraliga play-offs..now it´s all over...

 

No champion will be crowned this year...more info to come

 

Obciously I can understand ths decision, sad really sad but understandable, leaders of all clubs rejected the idea to finish the season without spectators, this has absolutely no sense in Slovakia. Maybe for freaking basketball or I don´t know handball which no one single dog in the country cares two shits about, would not be such problem but we are speaking here about the nations most popular sport...

 

economically, it would also be extremely harmful, but especially as everyone during the negotiations commented, playing in Slovakia the play-offa for the title and winning the title and celebrating title without spectators is simply unthinkable. total nonsense, this sport here is played for peoples..It better then to cancel the whole season...

 

well, it happened ..

 

[Monzanator 4,507]

Having no spectators in the stands won't be a problem in Polish sport. This has been a way to "fight" hooliganism for years and we've played a ton of football games with empty stands before. So obviously nobody cares there will be no fans in hockey, volleyball or handball games either if that's neccessary

[pdr4332 218]

LEN suspends all water polo competitions in upcoming 30 days

 

https://total-waterpolo.com/len-suspends-all-water-polo-competitions-in-upcoming-30-days/

Edited March 11, 2020 by dharang

[pdr4332 218]

36 minutes ago, hckosice said:

Fuck ! Fuck  Fuck !!!! FUCK !!!!!

 

The Slovak Ice Hockey Extraliga season 2019/20 has just been officially stopped and completely cancelled, we was 3 rounds before the end of the regular season and prior of one of the most followed sport event in the country the extraliga play-offs..now it´s all over...

 

No champion will be crowned this year...more info to come

 

Obciously I can understand ths decision, sad really sad but understandable, leaders of all clubs rejected the idea to finish the season without spectators, this has absolutely no sense in Slovakia. Maybe for freaking basketball or I don´t know handball which no one single dog in the country cares two shits about, would not be such problem but we are speaking here about the nations most popular sport...

 

economically, it would also be extremely harmful, but especially as everyone during the negotiations commented, playing in Slovakia the play-offa for the title and winning the title and celebrating title without spectators is simply unthinkable. total nonsense, this sport here is played for peoples..It better then to cancel the whole season...

 

well, it happened ..

 

 

 

Would be interesting to see what Hungary will do. It is reported that the HU Gov is now deliberating about, among others, limiting or suspending sport events and the decision will be published in the coming hours.

It is said that indoor events with more than 100 spectators cannot go ahead - this means koniec for handball for example (either continue it without spectators or cancel it altogether like you did with hockey) - probaly the most watched indoor sport in Hungary.

Curious as to what happens with football - not so much for the spectators, as a lot a matches have -in football terms- very few spectators anyway :D

Edited March 11, 2020 by dharang

[phelps 7,680]

Japanese Sport Minister and 1 of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee members have started speking openly of the real possibility to postpone the Tokyo Olympic Games to 2021 or, more likely, even 2022...

 

however, they admit they haven't talked of it collectively nor with the IOC yet, but that starting from April, they will begin monitoring the situation and then make their conclusions, provided that said interviews were just about a very personal point of view...

 

in any case, the final decision is up to the IOC (even if nobody in Japan expects them to go against the Japanese Government recommendations) and won't be taken before mid- / the end of June...

 

 

so far I've been strongly optimistic, but now I fear that on July 22nd (when the first events of the 2020 Games are scheduled) I'm gonna be the saddest and most depressed man on earth... 

[Monzanator 4,507]

If the virus outbreak in China decreases by numbers in March one can argue it will happen the same in Japan? And therefore in May we won't be talking about OG being postponed IMO. There's a LOT of money involved in the Games so it's much more difficult to cancel them unlike some random gymnastics or cycling events elsewhere.