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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on sports events around the world | News

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(Reuters) – Main sports activities occasions all over the world which might be within the means of re-starting or which have been rescheduled as a result of COVID-19 pandemic:

SOCCER

For an summary of the state of play in Europe’s soccer leagues amid the coronavirus outbreak click on right here:

* Main League Soccer gamers returned to voluntary coaching on Could 6.

* The 2020 Okay-League season kicked off on Could Eight behind closed doorways.

* Euro 2020 and Copa America had been postponed. The 2 tournaments will now be staged from June 11 to July 11, 2021.

* The Euro 2021 Ladies’s Championship has been pushed again to July 6-31, 2022.

* Asian Champions League: The beginning of the knockout rounds was moved again to September.

* The Chinese language Soccer Affiliation (CFA) has drawn up three plans to finish the 2020 Chinese language Tremendous League (CSL) season, one among which might see the marketing campaign start in late June and end in December.

* The ladies’s Bundesliga season will resume from Could 29 pending a inexperienced mild from native authorities.

* The ladies’s Underneath-20 World Cup in Costa Rica and Panama, postponed from August-September, has been rescheduled for Jan. 20-Feb. 6, 2021.

OLYMPICS

* The postponed Tokyo Olympic Video games will now start on July 23, 2021 and run till Aug. 8.

* World Athletics has suspended Olympic qualification till December.

PARALYMPICS

The postponed Paralympic Video games will run from Aug. 24-Sep. 5, 2021.

WORLD BEACH GAMES

The 2021 World Seashore Video games had been moved to 2023.

WORLD GAMES

* The 2021 World Video games have been pushed again by a yr to keep away from clashing with the Olympics.

OTHER SPORTS

ATHLETICS

* The World Athletics Championships scheduled for 2021 in Eugene, Oregon have been moved to the summer time of 2022 due to the Olympic Video games rescheduling.

* The World Athletics Indoor Championships (Nanjing, March 13-15) had been postponed to March 19-21, 2021.

* Boston Marathon organisers have postponed the race from April 20 to Sept. 14.

* The London Marathon which was resulting from happen on April 26 has been postponed to Oct. 4.

* The Diamond League plans to carry three conferences in August in Monaco, Gateshead and Stockholm adopted by September occasions in Lausanne, Brussels, Paris, Shanghai and probably Rome or Naples. Conferences in Eugene, Doha and China have been scheduled for October.

* World Athletics launched its calendar for the worldwide season starting with a Continental Tour Gold occasion in Finland on Aug. 11 and ending with a Diamond League assembly in China.

* This yr’s Biathle/Triathle World Championships in Weiden have been moved to 2021.

* The World Triathlon Collection (WTS) occasion and Combined Relay World Championships in Hamburg have been rescheduled for the weekend of Sept. 5-6.

* The Ironman triathlon has been pushed again to Sept. 6 from its authentic June 21 begin.

AUSTRALIAN RULES

* The Australian Soccer League season will resume on June 11, with 4 golf equipment shifting to the Gold Coast resulting from tighter COVID-19 restrictions of their residence states.

BADMINTON

* The Thomas and Uber Cup will probably be held from Oct. 3-11.

* The 2021 World Championships will start in late November as an alternative of August to keep away from clashing with the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics.

BASEBALL

* The South Korean league began on Could 5 with out followers.

* Taiwan’s baseball season resumed in April behind closed doorways. On Could 9, followers had been allowed in for the primary time, with 1,00zero spectators watching video games in New Taipei and Taichung.

* Main League Baseball staff homeowners on Could 11 agreed a plan to begin taking part in in empty stadiums in early July. The league will quickly suggest well being and security tips to the gamers’ union.

BOXING

* Dillian Whyte’s heavyweight combat towards Alexander Povetkin has been rescheduled for July 4.

CANOEING

* Canoe Slalom World Cups in France and Czech Republic have been tentatively rescheduled to October or November.

* The Canoe Slalom World Cup Remaining and non-Olympic World Championships in Germany have been moved from September to October.

* Canoe Polo World Championships in Rome have been pushed again till April 2021.

CRICKET

* English cricket’s The Hundred, initially scheduled to start on July 17, was pushed again to 2021.

CYCLING

* Giro d’Italia will start on Oct. 3, whereas the Spanish Vuelta will probably be held from Oct. 20.

* Milan-Sanremo will probably be held on Aug. 8, Liege-Bastogne-Liege on Oct. 4, the Tour des Flandres on Oct. 18, Paris-Roubaix on Oct. 25 and the Tour of Lombardy on Oct. 31.

* The Tour de France that was resulting from be held from June 27-July 19 has been postponed to Aug. 29-Sept 20.

* The European Street Biking Championships, scheduled for Sept. 9-13, have been postponed by a yr.

GOLF

* Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson, Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff will participate in a $Three million charity skins match on Could 17.

* Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning will compete in a charity match on Could 24 at Medalist Golf Membership in Hobe Sound, Florida.

* The Harding Park golf course which is scheduled to host the PGA Championship in August re-opened on Could 4.

* The Masters at Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership has been rescheduled for Nov. 12-15 from April 9-12.

* The PGA Championships at TPC Harding Park San Francisco, has been rescheduled for Aug. 6-9 from Could 14-17.

* The U.S. Open at Winged Foot Golf Membership, Mamaroneck, New York, was rescheduled to Sept. 17-20 from June 8-21.

* The Girls Skilled Golf Affiliation (LPGA) is hoping to get the 2020 season underway with the Dow Nice Lakes Bay Invitational from July 15-18.

* The Ladies’s PGA Championship has been postponed from late June to Oct. 8-11.

* The Australian PGA Championship will happen on the Royal Queensland Golf Membership from Dec. 3-6.

* The primary main of the 2020 golf season acquired underway on Could 14 when South Korea hosted the Korea Girls Skilled Golf Affiliation (KLPGA) Championship.

* World primary Ko Jin-young will tackle No. Three Park Sung-hyun in a charity skins match on Could 24 on the Sky 72 Golf & Resort in Incheon.

HORSE RACING

* Racing in France started with out spectators at ParisLongchamp on Could 11.

* Horse racing resumed in Germany on Could 7 with a restricted variety of races in entrance of empty stands in Hanover. Races had been additionally scheduled for Could Eight in Cologne.

* The Kentucky Derby, the primary jewel in North American horse racing’s Triple Crown (Could 2) was postponed to Sept. 5.

* Churchill Downs, the house of the Kentucky Derby, will open for spectator-free racing on Could 16.

* The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has stated it’s planning to renew the season on June 1.

* Horse racing will probably be allowed to renew in Eire with out spectators on June 8.

MOTOR SPORTS

* NASCAR stated its season will resume on Could 17 on the Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. It can maintain 13 races between Could 30 and June 21.

* The Le Mans 24 hours race was postponed from June 13-14 to Sept. 19-20.

* The Indianapolis 500 has been postponed till Aug. 23.

* MotoGP intends to begin its season with races on July 19 and 26 on the Jerez circuit in southern Spain.

* IndyCar will open its delayed season on June 6 with the Genesys 300 at Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) with out followers in attendance. The race at St. Petersburg, Florida scheduled for March 15 has been pushed again to Oct. 25.

* Formulation One hopes to begin the delayed season in Austria in July with out spectators earlier than ending in Abu Dhabi in December. Silverstone have agreed phrases for 2 races with out spectators on the circuit this season.

NBA

Groups had been notified they might reopen follow amenities on Could Eight underneath strict tips. Reigning NBA champions Toronto Raptors are permitting gamers entry to their coaching amenities from this week.

NFL

* The NFL season will start on Sept. 10 with a sport between Tremendous Bowl champions Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and Houston Texans.

NHL

The Nationwide Hockey League has scrapped plans to play regular-season video games within the Czech Republic and Finland this yr. The NHL suspended play in mid-March, however hopes to reopen coaching amenities by late Could.

RUGBY

* Australia’s Nationwide Rugby League is ready for a Could 28 restart after gamers agreed to 20% pay-cuts for the abridged 2020 season.

* Rugby Australia hopes to get gamers again in coaching in June for matches in July.

* New Zealand’s 5 Tremendous Rugby groups will play one another in a 10-week home competitors from June 13.

* The Mitre 10 Cup, New Zealand’s annual provincial competitors, will begin with a full 14-team championship from Sept. 11.

* Rugby Australia are doubtlessly together with each the Western Pressure and Japan’s Sunwolves in a contest with their 4 Tremendous Rugby sides to begin in early July.

SNOOKER

* The World Snooker Championship, initially scheduled to start on April 18, will begin on July 31 on the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.

SWIMMING

* The 2020 European Aquatics Championships scheduled to happen from Could 11-24 in Budapest, Hungary, have been postponed to subsequent yr.

* The World Aquatics Championships, scheduled for July 16-Aug. 1, 2021, had been pushed again to Could 13-29, 2022.

TENNIS

* The French Open was postponed till Sept. 20-Oct. 4.

* The ladies’s Rogers Cup event in Montreal was postponed till 2021.

* Skilled tennis returned with the Tennis Level Exhibition Collection occasion in Germany on Could 1.

* Hubert Hurkacz, Miomir Kecmanovic, Reilly Opelka and Tommy Paul took half within the UTR Professional Match Collection in Florida that started on Could 8.

* Patrick Mouratoglou’s tennis academy in France will host a five-week collection in Could.

ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP

* UFC motion returned with two playing cards on Could 9 and Could 13. A 3rd card is scheduled for Could 16.

Record of sports activities occasions which have both been cancelled or postponed as a result of outbreak:

OLYMPIC TRIALS

* U.S. trials for wrestling (April 4-5) had been postponed.

* U.S. Rowing postponed its staff trials.

* U.S. diving trials (April 3-5) had been postponed.

NORTH AMERICA

* The MLB has additional delayed its 2020 season’s opening day of March 26.

* The Ladies’s Nationwide Basketball Affiliation postponed the beginning of its 2020 common season, initially scheduled to run from Could 15-Sept. 20.

* The 2019-20 American Hockey League (AHL) common season and the 2020 Calder Cup Playoffs had been cancelled. The AHL standings on the time of suspension will probably be used to find out league awards.

SOCCER

* FIFA has agreed to delay the primary version of its revamped Membership World Cup resulting from be held in 2021.

* UEFA put all membership and nationwide staff competitions for women and men on maintain till additional discover.

* The lads’s and ladies’s Champions League finals and Europa League closing initially scheduled for Could have been postponed.

* South America’s two greatest membership competitions, the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana, are suspended.

* CONCACAF suspended all competitions, together with the Champions League and males’s Olympic qualifiers.

* Asian and South American qualifying matches for 2022 World Cup had been postponed.

* Japan’s J.League won’t maintain any video games in Could.

* Barcelona’s ladies’s staff had been declared champions of Spain’s Liga Iberdrola after the nationwide soccer federation’s government committee agreed to finish all non-professional competitions.

* The Asian Soccer Confederation on April 14 postponed all matches and competitions scheduled for Could-June till additional discover.

* The Brazilian soccer Confederation suspended all nationwide competitions till additional discover.

* Semi-finals of the CAF Champions league (Could 1-3) and CAF Confederation Cup (Could 8-10) had been postponed.

* This yr’s Worldwide Champions Cup, a pre-season event that includes Europe’s high golf equipment, was cancelled.

* Cameroon cancelled the remainder of its league season and declared leaders PWD Bamenda as champions.

OTHER SPORTS

ATHLETICS

* The Diamond League, the elite observe and discipline competitors, was compelled to cancel its London assembly scheduled for July 4-5. It had beforehand postponed occasions in seven cities scheduled between April and June.

* The Paris and Barcelona marathons had been postponed.

* The 2020 European Athletics Championship resulting from happen from Aug. 25-30 had been cancelled.

BADMINTON

* The Badminton World Federation (BWF) cancelled the final 5 tournaments within the qualification interval for the Olympics.

* The Indonesia Open (June 16-21) was amongst a bunch of occasions which have been cancelled whereas tournaments over the following three months had been additionally suspended in Australia, Thailand and Russia.

* The U.S. Open, set to be held from June 23-28 in California, was suspended.

BASEBALL

* The ultimate qualification event in Taiwan for the Olympics was put again from April to June 17-21, whereas the March 22-26 qualification occasion in Arizona was postponed.

BASKETBALL

* The Worldwide Basketball Federation postponed the boys’s Olympic qualifiers, European Championship and the Americas Championship by a yr.

* Turkey cancelled its basketball season on Could 11.

BOXING

* Anthony Joshua’s world heavyweight title defence towards Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev at Tottenham Hotspur’s stadium on June 20 was postponed.

CRICKET

* The Indian Premier League, initially suspended till April 15, has been postponed indefinitely.

* The final two video games of Australia’s three-match one-day worldwide collection towards New Zealand in Sydney and Hobart had been cancelled whereas the limited-overs excursions had been postponed.

* The boards of India and South Africa agreed to reschedule a three-match ODI collection to a later date.

* England’s take a look at collection towards Sri Lanka and West Indies had been postponed. The England and Wales Cricket Board prolonged the suspension of the skilled sport within the nation till July 1.

* South Africa’s limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka that was scheduled to happen in June has been postponed.

* Australia’s proposed take a look at tour of Bangladesh in June has been postponed.

* Eire’s residence collection towards New Zealand and Pakistan scheduled for June and July have been postponed.

CURLING

* Males’s and ladies’s world championships in Scotland and Canada respectively had been cancelled.

* World combined doubles and senior championships in Canada, scheduled from April 18-25 had been cancelled.

CYCLING

* The ultimate two phases of the UAE Tour had been cancelled after two Italian members examined constructive.

* The Paris-Good biking race ended a day early after the eighth stage into Good was cancelled.

* The Ladies’s Tour, scheduled to happen from June 8-13 was cancelled.

* This yr’s Tour of Britain scheduled for September has been cancelled.

GOLF

* The British Open Championship was cancelled.

* The European Tour cancelled the BMW Worldwide Open (June 25-28) and the Open de France (July 2-5). The Scottish Open (July 9-12) was postponed. The Tour had postponed or cancelled occasions scheduled between March and Could.

HANDBALL

* The German handball season was cancelled after high golf equipment voted in favour of abandoning the marketing campaign.

* The lads’s and ladies’s EHF Cup and Problem Cup had been cancelled.

* The remaining ladies’s Euro 2020 qualifiers in addition to European playoff matches for the 2021 males’s world championship had been cancelled.

HORSE RACING

* The Grand Nationwide competition (April 2-4) was cancelled.

* The Dubai World Cup, one of many world’s richest horse races and a premier annual sporting occasion within the United Arab Emirates, won’t go forward this yr.

* The Guineas Competition at Newmarket in Could and June’s Epsom Derby have been postponed whereas June’s Royal Ascot could also be held with out spectators.

MOTOR SPORTS

* NASCAR postponed occasions at Kansas Speedway Could 30-31, Michigan Worldwide Speedway June 5-7, the NASCAR Xfinity Collection race at Mid-Ohio Could 30, and the Gander Vehicles Collection race at Texas Motor Speedway, beforehand scheduled for June 5.

NETBALL

* Netball Superleague fixtures had been postponed till at the least Could 31.

ROWING

* The 2020 US Rowing Nationwide Championships scheduled for July and the 2020 US Rowing Masters Nationwide Championships scheduled for August have been cancelled.

* British Rowing prolonged the suspension of all its occasions to July 31. The British Rowing Offshore Championships & Seashore Sprints and British Rowing Junior Championships have been cancelled.

RUGBY

* 4 Six Nations matches had been postponed.

* France’s rugby federation suspended all its competitions and won’t be allowed to return till September.

* The European rugby season was suspended after European Skilled Membership Rugby postponed Champions Cup and Problem Cup quarter-final matches (April 3-5).

* The semi-final and closing of this season’s Champions Cup and Problem Cup tournaments, which had been resulting from happen in Marseille in Could, have been postponed.

* England’s Rugby Soccer Union and Wales’ governing physique confirmed the tip of the 2019-20 season for all league, cup and county rugby, however the English Premiership has been excluded.

* Tremendous Rugby suspended its season.

* World Rugby has postponed all take a look at matches scheduled for July.

SURFING

* The World Browsing League prolonged the postponement of occasions by means of June whereas additionally asserting a serious overhaul for future excursions, with particulars on a post-season surf-off to be introduced in July.

TABLE TENNIS

* The Worldwide Desk Tennis Federation (ITTF) scrapped all desk tennis competitions till the tip of July.

TENNIS

* The Wimbledon championships had been cancelled for the primary time since World Battle Two whereas skilled tennis has been suspended till July 13.

* The Fed Cup finals (Budapest; April 14-19) had been postponed.

* The Sept. 25-27 Laver Cup was cancelled to keep away from a conflict with the re-scheduled French Open.

* ATP occasions in Hamburg, Bastad, Newport, Los Cabos, Gstaad, Umag, Atlanta and Kitzbuhel won’t go forward as scheduled whereas WTA occasions in Bastad, Lausanne, Bucharest and Jurmala scheduled for July won’t be held.

VOLLEYBALL

* The worldwide volleyball federation (FIVB) cancelled this yr’s Volleyball Nations League, which was scheduled to start on Could 19 for the ladies’s competitors and Could 22 for the boys’s occasion.

* Turkey cancelled its volleyball season on Could 11.

WINTER SPORTS

* The Worldwide Ski Federation cancelled the ultimate races of the boys’s Alpine snowboarding World Cup.

* The World Cup finals in Cortina had been cancelled together with the final three ladies’s races in Are.

* The ladies’s world ice hockey championships in Canada had been cancelled.

* The Ice Hockey World Championship scheduled for Switzerland in Could was cancelled.

* The velocity skating world championships in Seoul had been postponed till at the least October.

* The March 16-22 world determine skating championships in Montreal had been cancelled.

* The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) has cancelled the rest of its season after briefly suspending its playoffs.

(Compiled by Shrivathsa Sridhar, Rohith Nair, Hardik Vyas, Arvind Sriram and Simon Jennings in Bengaluru, Amy Tennery in New York, Andrew Each in Cary, Robert Muller in Prague, Gene Cherry in Raleigh and Frank Pingue in Toronto; Enhancing by London enhancing staff)

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