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LEN Aquatics European Championships postponed to August 17-30, 2020. Hm, it makes absolutely no sense to have this right after SOG, and if SOG gets postponed to next year, why would LEN be able to host this in 2020?

It's not like we don't have a precedent for this, we had 2 winter games in two years in the 90s for different reasons. Having 2 games in 3 years is acceptable in my book, the time gap is still relatively large between the two events. As for next year's summer calendar, events like the Aquatics WCh and Athletics WCh should postpone to 2022, and we would have these WChs in 2022 and 2023. I think it wouldn't be that big of a deal for IAAF and FINA to have their biggest events "annually" for this short period of time, specially if they make this decision really early, this year, after SOG gets postponed to 2021.

There's absolutely no way that this event is happening. Literally everything got cancelled in Budapest in the last few days.

They can't just postpone Eurovision, this isn't a sport event. Many acts probably already have some other gigs booked for the summer and fall.

Plans for this weekend a few weeks ago: women's handball OQT, basketball 3x3 OQT, and probably some other events that I am forgetting. Plans for this weekend now: TISC draw and.... the next Marbula One GP?

Hungary is taking some extreme measures.... Loan payments are suspended until the end of the year for all private individuals and businesses who took loans out before today, Short-term business loans are prolonged until 30 July, Starting from Thursday, the annual percentage rate of all new consumer loans will be limited at the Central Bank's base interest rate plus five percentage points. Sectors that were severely hit by the pandemic (tourism, restaurants, entertainment venues, sports, cultural services, transportation) will be exempted from paying social security contributions. Employment regulations will be made more flexible to facilitate agreements between employees and employers.

Hungary actually has a precedent for this situation at the ESC. Hungarian pop idol 2005: Hungarian 2007 ESC entry:

Eh, even if by some miracle the European leagues and CL will finish by July, we just simply won't have a summer break, and the next season will start as usual. Going back to the regular schedule without any delays will be far more important than having a summer break.

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

We have a couple of users who didn't respond in the last few days. @Janakis @Glen @Ionoutz24 @Wanderer @DaniSRB

Yep, we went from 19 to 30 in a single day, by far the largest increase for us.

Yeah, it's similar to ESC, it's not allowed to vote for your own song.

The OQTs are officially postponed to June.

To the surprise of absolutely no one the women's handball OQTs are postponed to June.

The start of Giro d'Italia in Hungary is cancelled.

Also, you can probably expect NBC to push hard for a 2021 Summer Olympics instead of having the Olympics during the NFL season in September/October. My money is on a 2021 games if they have to postpone it.

Even if the pandemic will reach its peak in the next 2 months, my guess is that it will be too dangerous to go ahead with the Olympics for the next 4-5 months. It's time for everyone to accept what's happening because based on the last few days this outbreak will only get worse in a lot of countries.

Well, technically they aren't "few months before the games" now, because we can probably expect the games to be postponed to September/October or to next year, depending on which is better for the organizers.

I think the whole competition will be postponed to 2021, and they will announce it on next Tuesday.

The cancellation of the Australian GP is very likely imminent.

So the OQT in Hungary will either be postponed or it will be behind closed doors.

At this point TISC will be the only event that won't be cancelled or postponed in the next few months.

That would be awful, Montenegro is better than two of those teams.

Hungary bans all indoor events over 100 attendees, and outdoor events over 500 attendees. No one can enter the country from Italy, China, South Korea, and Iran.

Italians barred from Austria to stop the spread: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51815907