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Quite a few sports have had the idea of allowing fans to pay for photographs of themselves in the stadium.  Only Galatasaray  have managed to pretty much sell out the stadium, though.  

Seifu Mekonnen (boxing) died on 15 June due to complications from diabetes.

Grigor Dimitrov is apparently positive to COVID-19. He played at the exhibition tournament in Zadar yesterday...

Serbian sport shooter Bobana Veličković passed away today at age of 30
She was part of Serbian Olympic Team at London 2012 and Rio 2016, former 8th times European champion and world champion in air pistol
 
I cant believe it happened. She is younger than me. Life really sucks 
Rest in Peace our angel 
 

 
She become mother for the first time only 20 days ago 

Ahmed Radhi ( Football ) - represented Iraq in 1988 OG , one of the most iconic figures of Iraqi football has died today at age of 56 due to Corona Virus , he scored his country only goal in WCs in 1986 WC 

I’d recommend starting this replay in the morning 
 

https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/bureau-approves-bundle-updated-options-competition-calendars-2020-2021
 
UWW still thinks they can have Worlds Junior and U23 Championships this year. you can't see this in the article but they are also asking national federations about having a World Senior Championships late in 2020. Georgia is the possible host.
 
but there is also important that UWW says the ranking events in 2021 won't change the seeding for the Olympics, so the current ranking in UWW website is almost final. only Chinese and North Korean wrestlers can add some points from the 2021 Asian Championships but that won't make lots of changes.
 
important points for the men's freestyle (if nobody withdraws)
57kg: Zaur Uguev and Ravi Kumar will face in the SF, I was expecting that to be the Olympic final
65kg: Otoguro will be unseeded, so being seeded isn't necessarily a good thing here.
74kg: if Burroughs makes team USA (he has to beat 79kg World Champion Kyle Dake) he and Frank Chamizo will face in the SF, and if Russia sends Sidakov he will be in the other side of the draw.
86kg: if Russia sends Naifonov, he won't face our Yazdani before the final. David Taylor is still unseeded.
97kg: if Kyle Snyder makes it (he has to beat Jden Cox) he and the great Sadulaev won't meet before the final
125kg: Petriashvili and Akgul won't meet before the final
 
 

US Open goes ahead: no fans.
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/53070667

Sorry, I've busy in the real world for the last couple of weeks and haven't had time to check up on the forum.
The feedback page should be working well now and @Griff88's Indonesian updates should be done this weekend

Just going through some of Thomas Bach's results... Apparently he was pretty much the clutch performer on the 1976 German foil team. Especially during the semifinal stage against the Soviet Union!

I was in the Ana Ivanovic camp back in the day
 
Lest we forget how Maria Sharapova managed to dismiss both Azarenka & Jankovic over the MTO usage in one clean sweep:
 
Always drama in WTA!
 

Looks like they’re coming for football next 
 

Maybe Nigeria could be a black horse in men's basketball and cause a surprise win a medal for example , Poland could win men's volleyball gold for the 1st time since 1976 , women's volleyball gold should be between Serbia and China, USA and Italy for bronze, softball gold should be between Japan and USA 

Maybe Nigeria could be a black horse in men's basketball and cause a surprise win a medal for example , Poland could win men's volleyball gold for the 1st time since 1976 , women's volleyball gold should be between Serbia and China, USA and Italy for bronze, softball gold should be between Japan and USA 

https://wrestlingtv.in/u23-european-medallist-bendeguz-toth-passes-away-at-22/&ved=2ahUKEwich52tyO3pAhUBShUIHWHyBYkQFjAAegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw3zwTe60AhjF7oDiWoSpyJh
Not yet an olympic athlete, but very promissing one. Tragic indeed.
 

Plans to restart the NBA season at the end of July.
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/basketball/52924523
 
Will depend on the basketball players’ Union being less stupid than the baseball one.

Carlo Durante, Paralympic Marathon Gold Medallist in Barcelona (1992), Silver Medallist in Atlanta (1996) and Bronze Medallist in Sydney (2000)...
 
he also won 1 World and 3 European Paralympic titles and many more silver and bronze medals on the global stage...
 
he was 73 years old and died because of a heart attack while climbing the Montello hill on a tandem with his best friend and driver (he was blind)...
 
the news in Italian language:
https://www.repubblica.it/speciali/sportsenzabarriere/storie/2020/05/24/news/addio_a_carlo_durante_campione_paralimpico_di_maratona-257537980/?ref=RHPPBT-VS-I0-C4-P9-S1.4-T1

Balbir Singh, Sr. (field hockey - gold medalist 1948, 1952, 1956)
 
 
 
 

Cheering for fun teams, and Ajax kicking out those boring old teams like Real Madrid that are winning always anyway two seasons (?) ago was a hell of a lot of fun  

Too bad a year later the Juventus aliens and some....extra help followed  And two and a half decades later that damn Moura   

Are those first two trying to imitate Gervinho?  

League status, as of today:
 
Canceled - France, Belgium, Netherlands, Gibraltar, Luxembourg, Cyprus
 
Ongoing - Belarus, Faroe Islands, Germany (yay )
 
Restarting:
 
Estonia - 19th May
Czechia - 23rd May
Hungary - 23rd May
 
Denmark - 28th May
Poland - 29th May
Israel - 30th May
Serbia - 30th May
 
Albania - 2nd June
Austria - 2nd June
Bulgaria - 5th June
Croatia - 5th June
Romania - 5th June
 
Iceland - 13th June