Chelsea winger Callum Hudson-Odoi tests positive for coronavirus

2020 OLYMPIC GAMES 

In doubt 

The scale of the outbreak in Japan saw senior Intercontinental Olympic Committee member Dick Pound describe the ailment as ‘the new war’ threatening Tokyo 2020 and he warned the Online games may have to be cancelled if the virus was even now all-around by Might.

The Japanese government later on insisted Pound’s responses ended up not the IOC’s formal stance but there stays doubts around regardless of whether the summer months showcase can even now go in advance with overall health issues.

Athletes have been explained to to keep teaching and the plan stays to maintain the Online games in Japan as prepared but teaching for all-around eighty,000 volunteers has been delayed for at minimum two months- it was because of to start off on February 22.

The iconic start to Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic Online games will be held with no spectators as it was declared the regular torch-lights ceremony will just take location with no fans in attendance.

The Greek Olympic Committee declared Monday that the torch-lights ceremony – the symbolic start of each Olympic Online games – will be staged at a scaled-down, powering-shut-doors occasion because of to the ongoing fears around the spread of coronavirus in the region.

The Committee declared the Olympic torch will be lit in the course of a scaled-down-scale ceremony in ancient Olympia on Thursday, March twelve right before heading off on a seven-day relay, ending in an formal handover ceremony in Greece on March 19.

ATHLETICS

Cancelled

Globe Athletics Indoor Championships (March thirteen-15 in Nanjing) is off till 2021.

North Korea cancelled the Pyongyang Marathon scheduled for April just after imposing a border lockdown because of to the level of outbreak in South Korea.

The Seoul Marathon is cancelled in a bid to protect runners adhering to the mass outbreak in South Korea.

The Paris half-marathon is canceled and the French government also made a decision to ban all indoor public gatherings of a lot more than five,000 people.

The race involving some forty four,000 opponents was scheduled for Sunday (March one) in the French money metropolis. Organizers claimed the race will be postponed to a date nonetheless to be decided. 

The Barcelona marathon scheduled for March 15 has been postponed till October to stop the spread of the coronavirus, Barcelona’s metropolis corridor claimed in a statement.

In doubt

A blended relay Olympic triathlon qualification occasion scheduled for Chengdu, China in Might is moved to Valencia, pending an outbreak in Spain.

BADMINTON

Cancelled

German Open up (March three-8), Vietnam Open up (March 24-29) and Polish Open up (March 26-29), all Olympic qualifying activities, are cancelled because of to ‘strict overall health protection’.

BOXING

Cancelled

Olympic boxing qualifiers to be staged in Wuhan ended up cancelled by the Intercontinental Olympic Committee, and now are relocated to happen in Amman from March three-11

The IBF title battle in between Daniele Scardina and Andrew Francillette in Milan on February 28 was postponed by Matchroom because of to constraints in Italy adhering to the outbreak.

The Japanese boxing fee cancelled all battle playing cards scheduled for March on government assistance to suspend all pending sporting fixtures. They will not be rescheduled.

In doubt 

Daniel Dubois’s all-British heavyweight bout with Joe Joyce at the O2 Arena on April 11 in jeopardy because of to outbreak. 

CRICKET

Impacted

England players will not be shaking hands on their tour of Sri Lanka and will use fist bumps as a substitute.

Cycling

In doubt

Danish bicycle owner Michael Morkov has been cleared to race at the UCI Monitor Cycling Globe Championships just after getting saved in isolation around fears of an outbreak of coronavirus.

Morkov, 34, had travelled to Berlin on Thursday just after contesting the initially 4 stages of the UAE Tour, the closing two stages of which ended up then cancelled just after two associates of staff on the race ended up suspected of owning the ailment.

Riders and staff on the UAE Tour have been in l
ockdown considering that but, just after the Abu Dhabi Section of Wellness issued a statement on Saturday declaring 167 assessments had come again negative, the UCI claimed Morkov was totally free to race as ordinary.

Football

Cancelled

All domestic fixtures at all degrees are postponed by the Chinese Football Association as the period is pushed again because of to the scale of the outbreak in China.

Asian Champions League matches involving Guangzhou Evergrande, Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai SIPG are postponed till April.

The start of the Korean K-League period is postponed. The 4 teams in the AFC Champions League are enjoying their matches powering shut doors.

Japan’s J-League postponed all domestic online games till the center of March.

Inter Milan’s game in opposition to Sampdoria was a single of 4 Serie A online games cancelled last weekend because of to influenced areas in Italy foremost to assistance from the prime minister to phone off sporting activities.

Inter Milan’s Europa League match with Getafe was also postponed on March 11, although Roma’s flight to Spain to face Sevilla was banned from landing right before getting postponed, with Italy on lockdown.

Serie A declared on Saturday that five of the weekend’s fixtures, which includes the title showdown in between Juventus and Inter Milan, have been cancelled.  

The Coppa Italia match in between Napoli and Inter Milan on Thursday turned the hottest fixture to be identified as off, when it was postponed indefinitely. It was the twelfth game to be postponed considering that the crisis started and the third involving Inter.

An update from sporting activities minister Vincenzo Spadafora later on verified all the approaching Serie A fixtures for the weekend commencing March seven,8, would be played powering shut doors. And with the region on lockdown, it was later on declared that all activity, which includes Serie A online games, would be suspended till at minimum April three to consist of the virus.

In France, the Ligue one game in between RC Strasbourg and champions Paris St Germain was postponed on Friday.

It was the initially Ligue one game to be postponed, with Strasbourg’s Alsace region a single of the worst strike by the coronavirus in France, where 613 instances and nine deaths have been described.

The Leading League clash in between Manchester City and Arsenal, scheduled for March 11, was postponed as a ‘precautionary measure’ just after Olympiacos owner Evangelos Marinakis tested optimistic for coronavirus months just after observing his Greek group participate in at the Emirates Stadium. 

In Spain, April 18’s Copa del Rey closing in between in between Athletic Bilbao and Real Sociedad has been postponed. 

UEFA claimed it is inquiring governments throughout the continent to guarantee Euro 2020 goes in advance in 3 months in spite of the coronavirus outbreak. 

Studies in Spain on March twelve claimed that UEFA will suspend Champions League and Europa League soccer because of to the outbreak. 

MLS has been suspended for 30 times with David Beckham’s initially Inter Miami household game delayed. 

Impacted

The household leg of the Chinese women’s countrywide team’s Olympic qualification participate in-off in opposition to South Korea set for March is switched to Sydney. The squad are held in quarantine on their arrival in Australia for January’s qualifying group phase because of to fears of virus carriers.

Inter Milan’s Europa League match in opposition to Ludogorets on February 27 will be played powering shut doors. Only Television set legal rights-holders are authorized to show up at as media as the club look to safe the San Siro. Ludogorets players arrived in Italy carrying face masks.

Serie A declared five matches on February 28-March one will be played powering shut doors, which includes Juventus v Inter Milan in Turin, a substantial match in between title rivals.

Ligue one adopted match with online games set to be played in vacant stadiums till April 15. Clubs also have the possibility of enjoying online games with just one,000 fans.

LaLiga turned the hottest group to ban supporters in stadiums just after direction from Spain’s overall health ministry and sporting activities council. Barcelona’s Champions League tie with Napoli will also be played in an vacant ground.

Manchester United clash at Austrian aspect L
ask will be powering shut doors, with United handing out £350 to each admirer to assist with vacation and accommodation just after they bought 900 tickets for the Europa League game. 

Newcastle United have banned their players from shaking hands with each other amid coronavirus fears.

A few players from third-division Italian soccer club US Pianese have tested optimistic for coronavirus, the Tuscany aspect verified on Friday. 

Olympiacos proprietor Evangelos Marinakis, who also owns Nottingham Forest, tested optimistic for the coronavirus. Equally Olympiacos and Forest squads ended up tested and all returned negative.

While Arsenal’s game with Manchester City was postponed, the weekend’s game with Brighton was verified as heading in advance. 

In Germany, Hannover 96 defender Timo Hubers tested optimistic for the virus.

Spain’s Copa del Rey closing, which was set to just take location on April eighteen, in between Real Sociedad and Athletic Bilbao has now been postponed.

Cristiano Ronaldo went into isolation in Madeira just after it emerged that his Juventus group-mate, Daniele Rugani, has coronavirus. 

An additional Juventus player, Paulo Dybala, has also tested optimistic according to experiences and he has been placed in quarantine. 

The Football Association of Eire declared that all soccer under its jurisdiction will stop till March 29. 

Liverpool have declared a charity match in between a Reds Legends aspect and Barcelona Legends, because of to be played at Anfield on March 28, has been postponed.

FIFA states it will postpone South American Globe Cup qualifying matches because of to just take location in March. 

Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta tested optimistic for coronavirus on March twelve with the entire initially-group squad getting put into isolation. The Gunners’ game in opposition to Brighton, scheduled for Saturday March 14, has been postponed.

In the early hrs of Friday, March thirteen, Chelsea declared that winger Callum Hudson-Odoi had been diagnosed with the health issues. 

The club’s initially group have absent into self-isolation, although two buildings at their teaching ground in Cobham have been shut. Their game in opposition to Aston Villa, scheduled for Saturday March 14, appears sure to be postponed. 

In doubt

Thursday’s Europa League clash in between Olympiakos on Wolves is set to just take location powering shut doors just after an purchase by the government in Greece, but Wolves have requested UEFA to hold off the fixture.

England’s friendly in opposition to Italy at Wembley in March is even now set to go in advance, as per a tweet from England football’s account on March 11. England are also set to participate in Denmark in March.

Israel has warned citizens to keep away from all intercontinental vacation, which raises inquiries regardless of whether supporters or players will vacation to Scotland for their Euro 2020 participate in-off match on March 26. 

Escalating issues that some matches at Euro 2020 could be identified as off if the coronavirus outbreak receives worse in between now and the summer months. The tournament is set to be multi-metropolis. UEFA admit they are in a ‘waiting stage’ and need to follow the orders of the unique international locations involved. Even so, FA Chairman Greg Clarke has mentioned that he expects the tournament to go in advance.

Leading League online games are ‘likely’ to be played powering shut doors ‘in the coming weeks’ around coronavirus fears, Everton board member Sasha Ryazantsev has warned, in line with the motion taken in Serie A. 

Chelsea’s Champions League last-sixteen next leg at Bayern Munich is also heading in direction of getting postponed, it was uncovered on March thirteen. 

Method One particular

Cancelled

The Australian Grand Prix has been identified as off just after a McLaren group member arrived down with Covid-19, foremost to the British group pulling out prior to a choice getting manufactured on regardless of whether the race would even now go in advance. 

The announcement arrived hrs just after Lewis Hamilton claimed it was ‘shocking’ that the race was heading in advance. 

The Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai on April 19 is postponed with no choice around regardless of whether it will be reinserted into the 2020 calendar for later on in the period.  

Impacted 

The Bahrain Grand Prix, scheduled for March twenty-22, is to just take location powering shut doors. 

In doubt 

There are rising issues around regardless of whether the inaugural Vietnam Grand Prix (scheduled to just take location in Hanoi on April five) will go in advance.

Golfing

Cancelled

The Women’s Beginner Asia-Pacific golfing championship, slated to just take location from February twelve-15 in Thailand, was postponed and has been rescheduled for October.

The Honda LPGA Thailand occasion in Pattaya, Thailand scheduled for February twenty-23 together with the HSBC Women’s Globe Championship in Singapore, scheduled to start on February 27, ended up both equally postponed

The PGA Tour Series-China postponed two qualifying tournaments and delayed the start of its 2020 campaign by two months, cutting the variety of regular period activities down from 14 to ten.

The choice was manufactured to terminate the LPGA Blue Bay tournament in China, with the occasion at Hainan Island (because of to start on March five) seen as perilous to players’ overall health

The European Tour postponed the Maybank Championship (April sixteen-19 in Kuala Lumpur) and Volvo China Open up (April 23-26 in Shenzhen).

Impacted

Lorenzo Gagli
and Edoardo Molinari ended up withdrawn from the Oman Open up on professional medical grounds just after Gagli showed indicators of the virus. He shared a resort home with Molinari and he was explained to to self-isolate. They ended up later on reinstated to the tournament just after tests negative for the virus.

PGA Tour activities will go in advance as prepared with no spectators on web page. The policy usually takes outcome from Friday’s next spherical of the Gamers Championship and proceeds till the Masters.

HORSE RACING

Impacted

The Japan Racing Association uncovered that ‘government-sanctioned races’ will go powering shut doors.

Two race meetings in France following week are to just take location powering shut doors in a response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Monday’s jumps card and the Wednesday fixture on the Flat at Compiegne will have no shelling out consumers, with the purchase coming from the mayor of the city and the president of the Compiegne Racing Society.

Racing in Eire is to just take location powering shut doors starting till March 29

In doubt

Cheltenham pageant is in doubt as organisers set up a steering group to consider the risk posed by the virus, just thirteen times prior to the prestigious Gold Cup occasion

RUGBY

Cancelled

Scotland Women’s 6 Nations match with Italy on February 23 is postponed because of to an outbreak in the Milan region.

And the Women’s match in between Wales and Scotland in the 6 Nations on March 15 is also off just after a single Scottish player tested optimistic for the virus. 

Ireland’s 6 Nations assembly with Italy on March seven is postponed.

Ospreys and Ulster’s Pro14 trips to participate in in Italy on February 29 are postponed. Ospreys ended up because of to participate in Zebre in Parma with Treviso the venue for Ulster’s game in opposition to Benetton.

The Italian Rugby Federation suspended its National Championship and youth online games for February 28-March one.

Hong Kong Rugby Sevens is postponed, which is a blow to Olympic preparations for Group GB.

England’s closing 6 Nations game in opposition to Italy is off ‘with the intention to reschedule it at a later on date’. The same applies to the corresponding women’s and U20s fixtures. All ended up because of to be played on March thirteen-15.

In the meantime, France’s 6 Nations clash with Eire on March 14 has been pushed again with the French government having actions in opposition to sporting activities. 

In doubt

Scottish rugby declared preparations ‘continue as normal’ as they explore with French rugby regardless of whether to proceed with their 6 Nations match on March 8 adhering to a next coronavirus loss of life in France.

All of Italy’s remaining 6 Nations fixtures – they are because of to host England in their closing game on March 14 – are in serious doubt supplied the scale of the outbreak in Italy.

Fears of the virus spreading then prompted ITV to abandon designs to send commentators and pundits out to Rome for England’s game in opposition to Italy in Rome.

TENNIS

Cancelled

All activities on the ATP Tour have been suspended for 6 months. 

The BNP Paribas Open up at Indian Wells in California, set to start on March 9, was postponed at the eleventh hour.  It arrived just after a verified circumstance of the coronavirus in the nearby Coachella Valley.

The closing of an ATP Challenger occasion in Bergamo, Italy, in between Enzo Couacaud and Illya Marchenko of Ukraine is cancelled. Equally players gained position details and prize dollars for getting to the closing. They ended up denied the chance to participate in powering shut doors.

China forfeited a Davis Cup tie mainly because the men’s group ended up unable to vacation to Romania for the March 6-seven playoff.

WTA occasion Xi’an Open up (set for April thirteen-19) is cancelled because of to fears around player basic safety. WTA declared they are assessing their schedule with a variety of activities set for China in the next half of the period.

The Intercontinental Tennis Federation has declared that following month’s Fed Cup finals have been postponed because of to the coronavirus outbreak.

The occasion was because of to be held in Budapest and the competition’s participate in-offs, which ended up set to just take location in eight diverse areas, have also been placed on maintain.

The WTA also declared no tournaments will be staged for at minimum five months. 

Impacted

Japan’s household Davis Cup tie in opposition to Ecuador following week is now set to be played powering shut doors.

Gamers will be banned from handing their towels to ball-little ones at following week’s BNP Paribas Open up in Indian Wells, organisers claimed on Friday. 

OTHER Sporting activities

Cancelled 

MotoGP have cancelled their initially two races of the period in Qatar and Thailand. Moto2 and Moto3 will though operate in Qatar though as they ended up already based at the track for pre-period tests.

Cycling’s United Arab Emirates Tour has been cancelled with Chris Froome tested for coronavirus and Mark Cavendish put into lockdown in his resort home. 

South Korean baseball league cancelled all 50 pre-period game which ended up slated to just take location from March 14-24. It is the initially time considering that the leagues inception in 1982 that an entire set of exhibition matches are off. 

The initially-phase draw for the Table Tennis Globe Championships, scheduled for South Korea from March 22-29, is postponed.

A beach volleyball tournament, because of to be held in Yangzhou from April 22-26, is postponed till just after the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Globe Shorter track pace skating championship in Seoul is cancelled.

Following month’s Globe Triathlon Series occasion in Abu Dhabi was postponed on Saturday as a precautionary evaluate.

The occasion was because of to just take location from March five to March seven in the metropolis, which has described new instances of the virus.

Celebration organisers claimed they even now hoped to reschedule the occasion to just take location later on in March or April. 

The Women’s Globe Ice Hockey Championships, scheduled for Canada later on this month, have been cancelled. 

The NBA has also been suspended indefinitely just after two Utah Jazz players contracted the virus. 

The NHL has declared it has paused the 2019-twenty period with no date verified for when it will resume. 

Impacted

The Japanese expert baseball league manufactured the choice to participate in their 72 pre-period online games powering shut doors till March 15. Baseball is between the most well-liked sporting activities in Japan. 

In an aid to minimize threats of publicity to the virus, the NBA have explained to players to keep away from having items such as pens, markers, balls and jerseys from autograph seekers. 

In doubt

The South Korean baseball league regular period is in doubt in advance of the initially spherical of matches on March 28. An crisis assembly has been identified as.   

Uncertainties continue to be as the Asian weightlifting championships, scheduled for March, are relocated from Kazakhstan to neighbouring Uzbekistan. They could even now be postponed.