Sport Events Cancelled due to Coronavirus Outbreak

[Laraja 1,498]

World Surf League cancelled or postponed all its events for March. http://www.worldsurfleague.com/posts/449880/wsl-cancels-all-events-in-march

 

Including the first stage of the World Tour(Gold Coast, Australia) as well as qualifying series, junior tour and longboard events.

[Olympian1010 8,231]

26 minutes ago, Maxim Fastovsky said:

https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/tokyo-2020-olympic-games-will-be-called-off-for-july-if-who-says-it-should-be-says-ioc-boss-thomas-bach/

 

Well duh. That’s what they’ve said the entire time. They intend to wait until late May/early June to decide though from the insider talk I’ve heard.

[Monzanator 4,776]

13 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Well duh. That’s what they’ve said the entire time. They intend to wait until late May/early June to decide though from the insider talk I’ve heard.

 

This makes sense. If there's a visible decline in China/Korea come the end of April we could establish the outbreak will be in decline elsewhere too. Things could be back to normal in Japan come July.

[Monzanator 4,776]

IndyCar races have been suspended until the end of April (with Long Beach having been cancelled earlier already).

 

Of course month of May is the peak of IndyCar with Indianapolis 500 scheduled on the last Sunday of the month. Even the Spanish flu in 1918-19 didn't force Indy 500 to be held outside of May!

[Olympian1010 8,231]

London Marathon postponed.

[Wumo 3,024]

Badminton 

"The BWF announced late this evening, Kuala Lumpur time, that it had taken the necessary step to suspend all HSBC BWF World Tour and other BWF-sanctioned tournaments from Monday 16 March until Sunday 12 April 2020.

Tournaments affected include the YONEX Swiss Open 2020, YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2020, Orléans Masters 2020, CELCOM Axiata Malaysia Open 2020, and Singapore Open 2020, as well as a number of international Grade 3 tournaments.

A number of the tournaments impacted as a result of the suspension fall within the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games qualifying period. BWF will make a further announcement on regulations related to Olympic qualification points at a later date".

https://corporate.bwfbadminton.com/news-single/2020/03/13/bwf-sanctioned-tournaments-suspended-16-march-12-april/

 

Tournaments affected:

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1 hour ago, Monzanator said:

 

This makes sense. If there's a visible decline in China/Korea come the end of April we could establish the outbreak will be in decline elsewhere too. Things could be back to normal in Japan come July.

 

 

I think you can look at the outbreak in five distinct phases...... 

 

First only Wuhan and hubei...... 

 

Second rest of China 

 

Third South Korea / Japan and diamond princess 

 

Fourth Iran and Italy 

 

Fifth - core western Europe ( France / Germany / Switzerland /UK / Spain / Netherlands / Belgium) 

 

 

It is clear than china seems to have contained the virus reporting less than 20-30 cases daily 

 

Then Korea - japan seem to have also contained the outbreak..... Just 150-200 cases 

 

I think right now the outbreak is rampant in Italy / Iran with more than 4000 plus cases today 

 

The cases in Western Europe are again close to 4500 cases between these countries..... 

 

Most of the other countries are mostly getting travels from the outbreak regions which is totalling the last 1000 odd..... 

 

If we are able to cut the cases in Iran + western Europe the rest will fall in place......

 

Provided US  or Scandinavia does not get into the explosive growth phase .... Both seem to going there.... ?.....

 

 

[heywoodu 16,015]

2 hours ago, Monzanator said:

IndyCar races have been suspended until the end of April (with Long Beach having been cancelled earlier already).

 

Of course month of May is the peak of IndyCar with Indianapolis 500 scheduled on the last Sunday of the month. Even the Spanish flu in 1918-19 didn't force Indy 500 to be held outside of May!

NASCAR has postponed at least the next two races as well.

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Pre Olympic Men's Football Tournament and other CONCACAF competitions are suspended for the next 30 days.

[dcro 10,210]

FEI "strongly recommends" cancelling all competitions for a month.

 

Which is interesting, since several shows have already announced different intentions. Some even still plan to allow the spectators to be there.