heywoodu

It has been a weird week

Events with 100+ people cancelled, I'm now in a completely full train with hundreds, RIP

Gubay

No, it's not. This is like a freak accident, you can't prepare for literally everything.

New precautions in the Netherlands: - Everyone who is having mild symptoms should stay home and avoid social contacts while awaiting how his/her situation will develop (until today this advice - it's only a strong advice - was for the province of Brabant) - All events and things where more than 100 people get together, will be cancelled in the entire country - Everyone is asked to work from home as much as possible - Strong question to keep visits to the elderly and otherwise vulnerable people to a minimum - Don't travel abroad

ATP (men's tennis) has suspended the entire tour for six weeks.

Sorry, you go do some actual stuff for a half hour and you miss another 50 events being cancelled

I am aware of that, and of the whole general thing about ski jumping, posting on a specific ski jumping forum (international, definitely not Dutch) helps in that regard. Doesn't answer my question though (based on pretty much a never-ending stream of negative posts about almost literally everyone and everything that's not from 15+ years ago ) but fine, we can leave it at that.

The rollerskiing FIS races in São Carlos in Brazil have not been postponed or affected in any way @brunamoura Please tell someone to livestream something on Facebook Live so we have something to watch at least.

And down goes cycling even more, after the Italian races were already cancelled for now. Nokere Koerse Volta ao Alentejo Bredene Koksijde Classic Driedaagse Brugge de Panne (which is a one day event and not a three day event, as the name suggests, but fine) E3 BinckBank Classic Gent-Wevelgem

You know shit's real when even NASCAR starts paying attention.

I agree on one hand, but on the other hand it starts to look like that's kind of the only way to not become the next Italy.

Out of curiousity amongst all this: is there anyone with any sort of position in the world of sports you like?

Ski jumping boss Walter Hofer: "We have to inform you that the World Cup season 19/20 is over." Not entirely clear if he means the men only (of which he is the race director) or the women as well. Kind of sad for Hofer, that means this is his goodbye after decades as the guy :(

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No official word on RAW AIR yet but I'm guessing the winners for this year can be set in stone as of now?

Surely you can pick up some shoes and go running?

Meanwhile in the Netherlands, there's another press conference by the prime minister coming up. Earlier this week, the major announcement was that from now on we're not shaking hands anymore, followed by him shaking hands on live TV with the health authorities director. I'm guessing today's big thing is going to be something like "instead of 1 meter, try to keep 1,5m between people".

XC World Cup in Minneapolis. https://www.fis-ski.com/en/cross-country/cross-country-news-multimedia/news/2019-20/fis-cross-country-world-cup-races-in-minneapolis-usa-cancelled

Apparently there's a general press conference in a few minutes in Norway, people are pretty much expecting the result of this will be - among other things of course - a cancellation of the rest of RAW AIR. Let's see. Edit: decision about RAW AIR is planned for 14:00

Since F1 has said they'd cancel if a team has to withdraw, it's most likely going to be a matter of hours before they do so...

An overview of some of the football competitions in Europe. X speaks for itself, 'zonder publiek' means without spectators (England is 'probably without spectators) and 'mét publiek' means 'with spectators). I think most country names are pretty self-explanatory, maybe Oostenrijk (Austria) and Duitsland (Germany) as exceptions.