ATHENS, (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee is stepping up its “scenario planning” for the Tokyo 2020 Games — including a possible postponement — as the coronavirus pandemic spreads, it said after an emergency meeting yesterday.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – The Australian Football League’s (AFL) attempt to forge on with the season despite the coronavirus outbreak lasted just one round before it was shut down on Sunday in the wake of a government crackdown on non-essential travel.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – The Dubai World Cup, one of the world’s richest horse races and a premier annual sporting event in the United Arab Emirates, will not go ahead this year amid the worsening coronavirus epidemic.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – When the mighty Indian cricket board decided last week that only the chief among its national selectors would travel business class, it merely confirmed straitened times for the game amid the coronavirus outbreak.
(BBC) The county cricket season will not start until at least 28 May because of the coronavirus crisis.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Some Indian athletes have joined the clamour for the Tokyo Olympics to be postponed because they have no access to training facilities, which are under lockdown to arrest the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Formula One’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix in June looks set to become the latest casualty of a season that has yet to get started due to the coronavirus outbreak.
FIFA will be looking for someone else to lead the TT Football Association (TTFA), as Tyril Patrick has turned down the position of interim leader of the local football body.
(Reuters) – Nine-times Olympic gold medallist Carl Lewis yesterday called for the 2020 athletics season to be scrapped and July’s Tokyo Games to be postponed until 2022 because of the coronavirus pandemic that has killed thousands.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Calls from sporting organisations for this year’s Tokyo Olympics to be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic gathered pace yesterday with USA Track and Field (USATF), the French Swimming Federation and Brazil’s Olympic Committee the latest to join the throng.
With the threat of the novel coronavirus (CoviD-19) mounting with each day, the Georgetown section of the Academy Training Center (ATC), has officially halted all training sessions in an effort to thwart the spread of the disease.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies white-ball captain Kieron Pollard says players should use the break from competition, prompted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, to reflect on their careers and how they can do better.
West Indies Under-19 left-arm spinner, Ashmead Nedd believes that his performance at the Youth World Cup earlier this year in South Africa is just the stepping stone in his career.
Berbice’s Trophy Stall under-15 and its female team, received kudos from the president and executives of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) after both teams were triumphant in their respective Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).Inter-County
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Football’s local governing body says the coronavirus outbreak had brought Jamaica’s domestic and international programme to a “standstill”, and it was anxious to resume its itinerary once health authorities gave the all clear.
(BBC) Juventus and Argentina forward Paulo Dybala and former Italy captain Paolo Maldini have tested positive for coronavirus.
(BBC) Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton says he has undergone a period of isolation after recently being pictured with actor Idris Elba, who has tested positive for coronavirus.
(BBC) Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz died yesterday after being hospitalised with coronavirus.
(Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) should review plans to go ahead with the Tokyo Olympics during the coronavirus pandemic and ensure dialogue with athletes, the Sport and Rights Alliance (SRA) and the World Players Association (WPA) said yesterday.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The coronavirus pandemic is restricting the fight against anti-doping, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has said while issuing new guidelines to continue testing of athletes ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
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