Incredible coronavirus pandemic covered the globe with financial and health crisis. Sports industries couldn’t pass the situation with small losses. Competitions worldwide were delayed or moved. An example the Olympic Games 2020 that should be held in Tokyo was moved to 2021. Let’s go look at the list of changes in the sportive schedule.
Athletics and marathons
Running and jumping connoisseur will be upset to hear that many competitions of these kinds of sports have been dramatically postponed till defined dates or further indication. Spectacular and famous marathons such as London, Boston, and Paris international marathons were also postponed. The same decisions are waiting for athletics tournaments. For example, the ISTAF Berlin athletics event planned to be held in September may be delayed if the situation doesn’t change for the better. Rescheduling of the Olympics caused that Oregon World Athletics Championship will be held in July 2022 instead of August 2021.
Formula One and racing
Plans of F1 to begin new racing year on 3-5 July with Grand Prix of Austria seem to be completed but without visitors. The Hungarian Grand Prix planned for August will probably also take place with empty tribunes. All spring 2020 Asian Grand Prixes were delayed including Chinese and Vietnam contests, so were the ones in France and Canada. Le Mans MotoGP also suffered from the current global situation so the MotoGP officials decided to postpone it as well as Japanese MotoGP that had annually been organized beginning from 1986.
Tennis
The International Tennis Federation announced that almost 1 thousand competitions were postponed including even the championship Wimbledon. This had never happened since WWII when tennis tournaments planned for summer are canceled.
Boxing
The sport of boxing is not an exclusion and also canceled some important events. For instance, Tokyo 2020 qualifiers that were expected to happen in China were moved to Jordan. Money generating fight between boxers from heavy weight division Anthony Joshua and Kubart Pulev planned for June 20 is now pushed back to the winter 2020.
Basketball
Basketball EuroLeague and EuroCup finished the year without defined winners. Next season start is scheduled for October and September 2020. German Basketball league was permitted to complete the current season during June 2020. NBA decided to suspend the running season. The reason of this is simple, a positive result of the virus analysis of an NBA player.
Rugby
Rugby test matches are totally canceled at the moment. It’s hard to say that matches planned for November will also be postponed but 3 Six Nations games suffered from the coronavirus outbreak and were canceled.
Table tennis
Like big tennis, table tennis’ tournaments in Asia were rescheduled preliminary for summer while World Tour in Japan was postponed until further notice.
Swimming
UAE world championships that were planned for December 2020 were decided to postpone for December 2021. Another big event scheduled for next year, aquatics world championships in Japan, is pushed back to May 2022.
Qualifiers for Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics are postponed till next April.
Winter sports
Ice-hockey global tournaments in Canada and Switzerland have been delayed. Ski races of the World Cup also suffered from the postponement. Speed skating in Korea is moved to autumn.
Baseball
The most famous baseball organization worldwide, Major League Baseball couldn’t avoid suspensions of off-season camp and its opening matches in several American cities. Taiwan Olympic qualifiers are delayed. But South Korea’s regular tournament was open without any spectators after May postponement.
Cycling
Grand cycling tournaments such a Tour de France and European championship planned for June and September respectively were both rescheduled due to Covid-19. The first competition will take place in August-September while the second is removed till next year.
