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NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Eliud Kipchoge, the world’s greatest marathon man, reckoned his first reaction was shock when he heard at home in Kenya that the 2020 Olympic Games had been postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – The postponed Olympic Games will now begin on July 23 next year and run until Aug.

(Reuters) – Athletics’ world championships have been postponed until the summer of 2022 and the global governing body is seeking new dates for the event in Eugene, Oregon that was originally scheduled for 2021.

Former president of the T&T Football Association (TTFA) William Wallace will have to find an estimated TT$300,000 to $500,000 for legal costs if he and his three vice presidents are to challenge the world governing body for football (FIFA) in their efforts to overturn FIFA’s decision to remove them from office and implement a Normalisation Committee to manage the affairs of T&T football.

President of the St Ann Football Association (St. A. FA), Danny Beckford says that the large number of administrative mishandlings that dogged the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) over the last two years is the main reason FIFA has restricted funding to the federation and demanded changes.

RAYAD Emrit is keeping focus during the Covid19 break as he returned to the lower tier of national cricket after two decades to propel Police Cricket Club to the highest level locally.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Robert Hadad, chairman of the FIFA normalisation committee controversially set up to run Trinidad and Tobago’s football, has shot down suggestions there was any sinister intent to use the body to target certain administration officials.

With airports across the world shut down due to the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, several Guyanese cricketers are left stranded in Trinidad and Tobago.

With the spread of the Covid-19 virus increasing locally, Adrian Giddings, secretary of the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA), has confirmed that the current situation has thwarted all the entity’s developmental plans.

LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The WBO super middleweight world champion Billy Joe Saunders apologised yesterday for a video in which he advised men how to hit their female partners during the coronavirus lockdown.

(Reuters) – Four years after being inspired by watching compatriot Justin Rose claim gold at the Rio Olympics, Bronte Law had all but secured a spot on the British golf team before the 2020 Tokyo Games were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

MINSK/MOSCOW, (Reuters) – With professional soccer at a virtual standstill around the globe, fans in need of their weekly fix are turning to the Belarusian Premier League to fill the void as it carries on with matches despite the coronavirus outbreak.

(Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane said yesterday that he could leave the Premier League club if the team does not progress in the right direction as he wants to win trophies “sooner rather than later”.

(Reuters) – Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan says it would only be “fair” for rivals Liverpool to be awarded the English Premier League trophy if the season cannot be completed due to the coronavirus outbreak.

A gripping Candidates chess tournament to find a challenger for World Champion Magnus Carlsen of Sweden has been halted just at the halfway stage owing to the coronavirus pandemeic.

(Reuters) – Canada has put its doping control testing programme on hold until further notice in response to government directives intended to minimize the risk of exposure and spread of the coronavirus, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) said.

(BBC) British boxer Anthony Yarde says his father has died after contracting coronavirus.

Former NBA guard O.J. Mayo will play in China when play resumes in that country following a stoppage for the coronavirus.

Former Knicks guard and New York native Stephon Marbury has lined up 10 million N95 masks to be delivered from the place he currently calls home — China — to his hometown to help medical personnel battling the coronavirus.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – Former Turkey goalkeeper Rustu Recber has been taken to hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus and is currently in a “critical period”, his wife said late on Saturday.