Sport Events Cancelled due to Coronavirus Outbreak

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WTA confirms all events through May 2nd are postponed.

 

So they want to ride out until the Rome & Madrid Premier Mandatory schedule in the run-up for the RG.

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That is the cover of today's number of the most popular Polish sport newspaper.

 

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Kentucky Three-Day Event got cancelled.

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The IFSC African Championships (March 19-22) in Cape Town (RSA)  and the IFSC Oceania Championships (March 28-29) in Sydney (AUS) have been postponed. New dates of these two competitions have yet to be decided.

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

 

World Archery has suspended all international competitions until April 30th. 

https://worldarchery.org/news/178285/international-archery-suspended-until-30-april-due-covid-19-outbreak

So, the Pan American Championships in Monterrey, Mexico (23-29 March) and the Oceania Championships in Fiji (5-9 April) will be postponed. 

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Athletics - "Due to the growing number of countries affected by the COVID-19 virus, the first three meetings of the 2020 Wanda Diamond League season, scheduled for 17th April in Qatar, 9th and 16th May 2020 in China, cannot be held as planned. This decision was made in close consultation with organising committees, local authorities and sports governing bodies... The current plan is to stage the Shanghai event on 13th August. New dates for Doha and the second meeting in China remain to be announced. It could be that they will be held after the Wanda Diamond League Final in Zurich from 9th through 11th September, where the Diamond League Champions will be crowned, should the global situation allow".

https://www.worldathletics.org/news/news/wanda-diamond-league-suspends-early-season-ev

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It's pretty much already confirmed that UEFA Euro will be postponed to 2021. 

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I had just finished my preparations for snooker broadcast of Coral Tour Championship 2020 on our local TV. (I would commentate live first session at 2pm CET) And then, this came half hours ago...  

 

https://wst.tv/coral-tour-championship-postponed/

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8121267/Japan-Olympic-Committees-deputy-chief-tests-positive-coronavirus.html

 

 

 

Japan Olympic Committee's deputy chief tests positive for coronavirus following nine-day trip to Europe and America as doubts increase on whether Tokyo 2020 can go ahead

 

The deputy head of Japan's Olympic Committee has tested positive for coronavirus, he revealed today. 

 

Kozo Tashima announced he had a 'mild fever' and a 'symptom of pneumonia' but was feeling 'fine' and would 'concentrate on treatment'. 

 

Tashima had recently returned from a nine-day business trip in which he travelled to Northern Ireland, Holland and the United States - saying 'everyone was still doing hugs and handshakes' at the time. 

 

The news comes amid growing doubts over whether the Tokyo 2020 Games can go ahead at all because of the growing pandemic.   

 

'Today, my test result showed positive for the new coronavirus,' Tashima said in a statement, issued via the Japan Football Association which he also heads.

 

'I have a mild fever. Examinations showed a symptom of pneumonia, but I'm fine. I will concentrate on treatment following doctors' advice,' he said. 

 

Tashima said he had been on a business trip since February 28, first heading to Belfast to attend a meeting of the International Football Association Board (IFAB).

From March 2, he visited Amsterdam for a UEFA meeting to give a presentation on Japan's bid for the 2023 women's World Cup.

 

And on March 3, he attended a general meeting of the same body.

 

'In Amsterdam and in Europe in early March, the level of nervousness against the novel coronavirus was not the same as now,' he said in the statement.

 

'Everyone was still doing hugs, handshakes and bises (cheek kissing).'

 

He then travelled to the United States to watch the Japanese women's team in action and to lobby for the women's World Cup, before returning home on March 8.

'In the United States, too, the sense of crisis about the novel coronavirus was not as serious as now,' he said.

 

Staff at the Japan FA have been working from home as a precaution against the virus, but Tashima said he went to the association building several times last week and attended meetings.

 

He began feeling chills and experienced a mild fever from Sunday. He went to a local public health centre on Monday and told them about his travel history. 

During the UEFA gatherings, Tashima said he saw Swiss and Serbian football chiefs, who have tested positive for the virus, although he added it was not clear how he contracted the infection.

 

His positive test came out on Tuesday.

 

'I have chosen to face the illness as so many people are doing in Japan and around the world,' he said, adding that he hoped his decision would help eradicate the stigma attached to the infection. 

 

Japanese officials are insistent that the Olympics will go ahead as planned with an opening ceremony on July 24. 

 

International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach also wants to go ahead but says the body will follow WHO guidelines. 

 

The Tokyo 2020 organising committee has already been forced to scale down festivities related to the Olympic torch relay to prevent further spread of the virus.

 

The flame, which has already been lit in Greece, will arrive in northern Japan on Friday, with the torch relay slated to start on March 26 from Fukushima. 

 

Most major sporting events have been called off because of the virus, including football's Premier League, golf's Masters and motor racing's Formula One season.

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Now even the person in charge of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is infected with Corona Virus. He most probably contracted the virus when he is in US or UK as he has visited these 2 countries prior to Tokyo 2020 Olympics. With the person in charge of the Olympics being infected with Corona Virus it will put even more danger if the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will proceed as usual. Like it or not we might have to accept the fact that the Tokyo 2020 Olympics might have to be postponed.

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Copa América of Football postponed to 2021