Athletics
The number 1 Olympic sport has already facilitated the task of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by mentioning on Monday a possible postponement to 2022 of its Worlds, scheduled for the summer of 2021 in the United States in Eugene (Oregon). “The International Athletics Federation has already started discussions with the organizing committee for the 2021 Worlds on the possibility that the Olympic Games may be postponed to the following year, and this committee in turn has opened discussions with key partners and reiterated that it would work with all of its partners to ensure that Oregon is able to host the World Athletics Championships on other dates if necessary, "she said. communicated.
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Swimming
The World Championships were scheduled to take place from July 16 to August 1, 2021, in Fukuoka, Japan. The Fina is also ready to show good will and will study "the flexibility of dates, if necessary and in agreement with the IOC". While stressing that its "main objective is to guarantee the success of its flagship event". How will the equation be solved? Impossible to say at the moment. Added to this is the question of the reprogramming of the 2020 European Championships, initially scheduled for May in Budapest but also postponed.
Judo and gymnastics
The rule is the same for these two sports: World Championships are held every year, except in the Olympic year. In 2021, those of judo are scheduled in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, a priori in September, and those of artistic gymnastics in Copenhagen, from October 18 to 24. The risk of coinciding with the new Olympic fortnight is therefore ruled out. What will they become? She is still an unknown. The International Gymnastics Federation has only said that it "will do whatever it takes to adjust its schedule". To a Dutch judokate who asked her if it was possible to advance the Worlds 2021 to 2020, the International Federation replied on social networks that she "should of course partially rethink her calendar".
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Basketball
Euros were on the agenda for 2021: in June in France and Spain for women, and in August in four countries for men: Germany, Italy, Georgia and the Czech Republic. It is not imagined that the NBA, nor probably the Euroleague, will release their players for two competitions the same summer. The president of the FFBB and vice-president of Fiba Europe Jean-Pierre Siutat suggested that the Women's Euro be postponed to 2023 to serve as a test-event at the Paris Games and the Men's Euro in the summer of 2022, devoid major competition in the new international calendar.
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Handball
This sport organizes a major competition each year and the Olympic years are no exception. Normally, this is the Euro, in January for men and in December for women. The Games being moved, they will be supervised by the Worlds, in Egypt for the gentlemen and in Spain for the ladies. But there will be no problem of date since the men will play in January and the women in December, according to a calendar and a rhythm to which they are accustomed.
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Volleyball
The League of Nations, an annual competition organized in June-July, does not stop during the Olympic years. On the other hand, the Euros programmed at the end of summer (Czech Republic, Finland, Estonia, Poland for men, Serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania for women) will be a problem.
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Cycling
If the Games are organized in 2021 in the same weeks as in 2020, they will start on the weekend when the Tour de France ends. But it has already been seen. The Olympic road race, which usually takes place on the first day of the Games, should therefore be postponed. Pistards have their Worlds in winter and will not be affected.
Tennis
The problem will be the same as for 2020: a very dense calendar, with tournaments every week or so, and very little room for maneuver.
Other sports
Among the many other disciplines which organize their World Cup during the post-Olympic year and which will have to adapt, we find rowing (in China), badminton (in Spain), canoeing (sprint in Copenhagen, slalom in Bratislava), fencing (in Cairo), weightlifting (in Lima), wrestling (in Oslo, but in October), modern pentathlon (in Minsk), taekwondo (in China), archery the bow (in the United States), shooting (not yet awarded). Horse riding has scheduled its European Championships in Budapest for dressage, show jumping and aerobatics, and in Normandy in France for the eventing.
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