Sport Events Cancelled due to Coronavirus Outbreak

[hckošice 16,623]

IIHF today officially cancelled 10 different World Championships originally schedulled from December 2020 to February 2021.

 

With the only exception being the Mens U20 Elite division in Canada (Edmonton & Red Deer) traditionally schedulled during the christmas/new year festive period from 26th December to 5th January.

 

 

All remaining Mens U20 dividions are cancelled, same apply for the Womens U18 category all dividions including the elite division has been for the 2021 edition cancelled

 

 

So far all spring tournaments the all Mens U18, Womens seniors and Mens seniors tournaments remains in the schedulle, but however every tournament will be reinspected following the recommendations of the IIHF COVID-19 Expert Group when time arrive. 

 

Also the Olympics Womens Qualification 1st round schedulled in Reykjavik this december has been postponed to later date until further notice.

 

Spoiler

Following the Council decision, the following tournaments will be canceled:

2021 IIHF ICE HOCKEY U20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION I GROUP A 
13-19 December 2020 – DENMARK, Horsholm

2021 IIHF ICE HOCKEY U20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION I GROUP B
10-17 February 2021 – ESTONIA, Tallinn

2021 IIHF ICE HOCKEY U20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION II GROUP A 
8-14 February 2021 – ROMANIA, Brasov

2021 IIHF ICE HOCKEY U20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION II GROUP B 
8-14 February 2021 – SERBIA, Belgrade

2021 IIHF ICE HOCKEY U20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION III 
11-16 January 2021 – MEXICO, Mexico City

2021 IIHF ICE HOCKEY U18 WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
5-12 January 2021 – Sweden, Linkoping & Mjolby

2021 IIHF ICE HOCKEY U18 WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Division I Group A
10-16 January 2021 – HUNGARY, Gyor

2021 IIHF ICE HOCKEY U18 WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Division I Group B
10-16 January 2021 – AUSTRIA, Radenthein

2021 IIHF ICE HOCKEY U18 WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Division II Group A
19-22 January 2021 – GREAT BRITAIN, Dumfries

2021 IIHF ICE HOCKEY U18 WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Division II Group B
28-31 January 2021 – TURKEY, Kocaeli

 

[hckošice 16,623]

6 hours ago, hckosice said:

With the only exception being the Mens U20 Elite division in Canada (Edmonton & Red Deer) traditionally schedulled during the christmas/new year festive period from 26th December to 5th January.

 

and we know more. The Mens U20 Top division world championships will be in fact the only IIHF tournament held until next February.

 

However the tournament will be hosted only in Edmonton and will be played behind closed doors without spectators and all 10 teams will live in a special bubble !

 

They will have to change the format (the system will be announced in the next days)

 

Anyway, the good news is no one will be relegated this time (good news, since this 2001 year is one of our worst ever, and was seriously affraid of "maintaining our status of never relegated country in this category" since last years tournament )

[intoronto 6,905]

The 2021 Canada Summer Games in Niagara are now moved to 2022.

[hckošice 16,623]

all sport events (Professional or Amateur) of any level (domestic or international) is banned from 1st October midnight

 

will affect among others the EURO 2020 play-off SVK - IRL schedulled 8th October, the Košice Peace Marathon (the second oldest annual marathon in the world) 4th October and others

 

means obviously, also the Ice Hockey Extraliga will not start (1st round was expected the 2nd October)

 

Spoiler

All mass events, except for weddings, christenings and funeral ceremonies, will be cancelled. This includes cultural and sports events, as well as mass, wedding parties and funeral feasts. The exception will be given to those organisers who report the event to the respective regional Public Health Authority office 48 hours prior to the event, and all participants have a negative COVID-19 test no older than 12 hours. Family parties should be postponed until the situation improves. The details for the limits of participants in events that are exempt will be specified later.
 

 

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22498381/crisis-staff-takes-resolute-measures-severe-limits-on-mass-events-introduced.html

 

 

[rybak 3,431]

54 minutes ago, hckosice said:

all sport events (Professional or Amateur) of any level (domestic or international) is banned from 1st October midnight

 

will affect among others the EURO 2020 play-off SVK - IRL schedulled 8th October, the Košice Peace Marathon (the second oldest annual marathon in the world) 4th October and others

 

means obviously, also the Ice Hockey Extraliga will not start (1st round was expected the 2nd October)

 

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All mass events, except for weddings, christenings and funeral ceremonies, will be cancelled. This includes cultural and sports events, as well as mass, wedding parties and funeral feasts. The exception will be given to those organisers who report the event to the respective regional Public Health Authority office 48 hours prior to the event, and all participants have a negative COVID-19 test no older than 12 hours. Family parties should be postponed until the situation improves. The details for the limits of participants in events that are exempt will be specified later.
 

 

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22498381/crisis-staff-takes-resolute-measures-severe-limits-on-mass-events-introduced.html

 

 

Damn, this means that also Dudinská Päťdesiatka is cancelled?  

[hckošice 16,623]

58 minutes ago, rybak said:

Damn, this means that also Dudinská Päťdesiatka is cancelled?  

we´ll see.

 

The Dudinská 50 is schedulled for 28th October, so until then the situation may change.

 

+ there still a possibility an event can be held (but not very likely), but without spectators in very limited participation and everyone must have a valid covid-19 negative test not older than 12 hours before the start of the competition. I guess our athletics federation will do everything possible to let Matej Tóth reach that freaking Tokyo standard even if he´ll be the sole competitor at the start

[mrv86 3,265]

UIPM cancelled this year's World Championships in Cancun.

 

Makes sense as Quintana Roo is one of the states with worst prepared during this pandemic. It only shows that their local government has done little but turn the whole Mexican Caribbean Coast into little more than an open air whorehouse for Europeans.

[heywoodu 16,465]

No word on the Amstel Gold Race here yet, but government did announce yesterday that from now on (again) every sports event on every level will be held without spectators. They didn't specifically say it, but we've got football 'fans' to thank for that, unsurprisingly behaving like idiots so they won't be able to go again for a while. I guess that's what they wanted  

[hckošice 16,623]

After the protest of our Extraliga Ice Hockey players in front of the governement office against the ban of all sports in the country from this midnight, The PM had no other chance but to ease the ban. 

 

Crazy ice hockey country

 

from tomorrow all sport events will be allowed in the country, But the max of people in the event must be 50, including players, officials !!!...that means all sport events will be in the next weeks without spectators here...

 

The conflict continue, now the Football federation president is arguing that the next EURO Play-Off match against Ireland must be held with at least 500-250 people in the stadium from players to security staff etc... otherwise we are going to embarass ourselves in front of the whole europe and world...this statement was joined by members from almost all our other sport federations.. also the NOC send a protest list and some requests to the governement, including a requirement to create a national quarantine center (or a special bubble if you want) for our elite athletes in šamorín, in order to continue their training and preparations for the next year major events.

 

 

 

Pictures of our Ice Hockey top tier league players protest against the ban of all sports this morning in front of the governement office

 

 

 

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[heywoodu 16,465]

Those people haven't heard of the whole "keep your distance" thing that's the main thing in trying to stop this situation?