EUROPE
Athletics
-The Paris half-marathon, scheduled for Sunday March 1 and for which 44,000 runners were registered, has been canceled.
basketball
-Women's Euroleague: two Italian teams, Venice and Schio, won a match on the green carpet, their opponents, the Riga Latvians and the Sopron Hungarians, having refused to play it.
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Badminton
-The German Open, which was to be contested from March 3 to 8, has been postponed and is likely to be canceled entirely. That of Poland (March 26-29) is postponed sine die, and this tournament will therefore be excluded from the qualifying period of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Soccer
-Italy: Inter Milan organized their Europa League match behind closed doors on February 27 against the Bulgarian club Ludogorets and won by Inter 2-1. After the postponement of four matches of the 25th day of Serie A scheduled for February 23, six matches of the 26th day (Sampdoria Genoa-Hellas Verona, AC Milan-Genoa, Parma-Spal, Sassuolo-Brescia, Udinese-Fiorentina, Juventus- Inter Milan), scheduled for February 29, March 1 and 2, have been postponed to May 13.
-Switzerland: the 24th day of the Football Championship scheduled for February 29 and March 1 has been postponed.
Rugby
-Six Nations tournament: the Irish Rugby Federation, after a meeting with the Ministry of Health, has decided to postpone the match between Ireland and Italy, which was to take place on Saturday March 7 in Dublin . The Italy-Scotland Women's Tournament match scheduled for February 23 at Legnano in Lombardy has been postponed.
-Italian Championship: the Italian championship matches scheduled for next weekend have been rescheduled, as has the final postponed to June 6.
-Pro14: two matches of Pro14, a club competition between British, Italian and South African teams, which was to be played on February 28, were also postponed.
Alpine skiing
-World Cup finals: the Ski World Cup finals will be well contested in Cortina (Italy) but without audience (March 18-22).
Tennis
-The final of the Challenger tournament - the second division of the ATP Tour- from Bergamo in northern Italy, which was to be played on March 1, has been canceled.
ASIA
China and its neighbors were the first to see their sporting events shaken up by the epidemic.
Soccer
- The Chinese football championship, which was due to start on February 22, has been postponed, as have "competitions of all types and at all levels".
- The Chinese national team will play two qualifying matches for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar against the Maldives on March 26 and against Guam on 31 in behind closed doors stadiums in Thailand.
- The kick-off for the South Korean national championship, which was scheduled to take place on February 28, has been postponed and no resumption date has been set.
- Two matches of the Asian Champions League, in Seoul and Ulsan in South Korea, will be played behind closed doors on Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 March.
- The Japanese football federation announced on February 25 the postponement of all matches scheduled until March 15, in the league and in the Cup.
Tennis
- Davis Cup: China was forced to forfeit the Davis Cup against Romania. The meeting was scheduled for March 6 and 7 in Romania. The Japan-Ecuador meeting, scheduled for the same dates, will be held behind closed doors.
-WTA: the Xian tournament, which was to be played in mid-April, has been canceled.
Marathon
-The Tokyo marathon in Japan scheduled for March 1 has been canceled for amateurs and that of Pyongyang in North Korea, which traditionally takes place in April, has been canceled.
Modern Pentathlon
-The 2020 Modern Pentathlon Worlds, qualifiers for the Tokyo Olympics which were to take place at the end of May in Xiamen in China, have been relocated to Cancun in Mexico.
Athletics
- Indoor worlds: scheduled for Nanjing in China from March 13 to 15, they have been postponed to 2021.
Alpine skiing
- Men's World Cup: Xiaohaituo Mountain, 50 km north of Beijing, the site of the 2022 Winter Olympics, was to host a downhill and Alpine skiing super-G for the World Cup from 12 to 16 February. The stage has been moved to Saalbach-Hinterglemm (Austria).
Golf
-LPGA: after the cancellation at the end of January of the stage on Hainan Island, the Pataya tournament, which was due to start on February 20, and that of Singapore scheduled a week later, were also canceled by the northern circuit -American female golf course.
Cycling
-Tour de Hainan: the International Cycling Union (UCI) canceled this UCI ProSeries event, scheduled from February 23 to March 1 on the Chinese island of Hainan.
Swimming
-World Series of diving: scheduled from March 7 to 9 in Beijing, the Chinese stage has been canceled by the international swimming federation.
- Synchronized swimming: the world series scheduled for Suzhou from April 23 to 25 has been canceled.
car
-Formula 1: the Chinese Grand Prix scheduled for April 19 in Shanghai has been postponed. That of Vietnam on April 5 is maintained for the moment.
-Formula E: Sanya's ePrix, scheduled for March 21 on the island of Hainan in southern China, has been canceled.
Motorbike
-MotoGP: the Grand Prix of Thailand, which was to start on March 22, has been postponed indefinitely, to Monday, March 2, the Thai Minister of Health.
Badminton
-Masters of China: the tournament scheduled from February 25 to March 1 in Lingshui, on the island of Hainan, has been postponed sine die after the withdrawal of several players.
Fight
- Olympic qualification tournament: the Asian wrestling Olympic qualification tournament, scheduled for March 27-29, will not take place as planned in Xi'an, in central China, but the new host city is not has not yet been determined.
Rugby
-World Rugby Seven Series: the rugby sevens tournaments of Hong Kong and Singapore, which were to take place in April, have been postponed. The Singapore Sevens will be held on October 10 and 11, before the queen stage of the circuit, from October 16 to 18 in Hong Kong.
sumo
The 2020 Sumo Spring Tournament, scheduled for March 8-22 in Osaka (west), will take place behind closed doors, the Japanese Sumo Association (AJS) announced on March 1, five months before the Olympics. from Tokyo.
Table tennis
- The World Table Tennis Teams, which were to be held from March 22 to 29 in the South Korean city of Busan, were rescheduled by the International Federation (ITTF) from June 21 to 28.
MIDDLE EAST
Cycling
-UAE Tour: the last two stages of the Emirates Cycling Tour, scheduled for Friday 28 and Saturday 29 February, were canceled after the discovery of contamination by coronavirus from two members of a team's management.
Motorbike
-The Qatar Moto GP Grand Prix, which was to mark the opening of the season in the premier category of the World Motorcycle Speed Championship on March 8, was canceled by the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM), "due to the restrictions on the movement of people from Italy (among other countries) ".
The FIM, on the other hand, maintained the Qatar Grand Prix in Moto2 and Moto3, whose riders have been in Qatar since last week for testing.
Triathlon
-World Cup on short distance (Olympic and sprint): the first of the seven stages of the World Series, originally scheduled for March 6 and 7 on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, has been postponed.
Sport
-The government of Kuwait asked on February 24 to the sports federations of the country to suspend all sporting events for a period of fifteen days, according to the official agency Kuna.
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