Sport Events Cancelled due to Coronavirus Outbreak

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 WBSC Baseball Americas Qualification Event has been postponed.

https://olympicbaseball.wbsc.org/en/2020/e-2020-americas-baseball-olympic-qualifier/news/americas-olympic-baseball-qualifier-postponed

 

Climbing:

IFSC European Championships in Moscow (RUS), initially scheduled to take place from March 20 to 27 has been postponed. The competition is now scheduled from June 15 to 22.

Postponement of the IFSC World Cup in Meiringen (SUI), initially scheduled to take place from April 3 to 4, and the IFSC World Cup in Seoul (KOR), initially scheduled to take place from May 8 to 10; both competitions will likely be held between September and October.

Postponement of the circuit of IFSC Europe cups and IFSC Europe youth cups that were scheduled to take place in April and May; the IFSC Europe Sport Department is working closely with each event organiser in order to establish a new calendar for the competitions affected by this issue.

Two IFSC World Cup competitions initially scheduled to take place in Wujiang (CHN) and Chongqing(CHN) in April have been postponed.

Relocation of the IFSC Asian Championships initially scheduled to take place in Chongqing (CHN) from April 25 to May 3.

https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/news/319-update-on-ifsc-competitions

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Table Tennis - ITTF suspends all activities provisionally until end of April. The suspension comes into effect from Monday 16th March 2020 and relates to all ITTF sanctioned events, High Performance and Development activities and ITTF Foundation activities that had been due to start between the above date and the end of April 2020.

https://www.ittf.com/2020/03/13/ittf-suspends-activities-provisionally-end-april/

 

So these Olympic Qualification events will be postponed:

Asia Qualification Event (April 6–12) in Bangkok, Thailand

Latin America Qualification Event (April 15–19) in Rosario, Argentina

Oceania Qualification Event (April 19–20) in Brisbane, Australia

Edited March 13, 2020 by Wumo

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Polish football Ekstraklasa (and the lower leagues) has been suspended until the end of March.

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Russian Basketball VTB League with clubs from Belarus, Poland, Estonia, Kazakhstan has been suspended.

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It is not yet official, but the minister of sports of Flanders has said the chance of De Ronde happening this year is 'basically zero'.

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And that's the Giro d'Italia down the drain, at least for an as of yet unkown time.

 

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We are talking about may now. Next in line is Roland Garros. 

 

'Fun' Fact : the french tennis federation makes 85% of its revenues from RG.

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28 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

We are talking about may now. Next in line is Roland Garros. 

 

'Fun' Fact : the french tennis federation makes 85% of its revenues from RG.

Yeah, it’s going to take sports a few years to recover from this I fear 

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Manchester 6-Day off

Masters postponed

Wales v Scotland off.

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26 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Yeah, it’s going to take sports a few years to recover from this I fear 

 

Let's don't confuse national federations with ITF or WTA/ATP