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Covid-19: the sports calendar shaken up again

2021-12-30T14:40:18.150Z


Spoiled English boxing day, Euroleague cut off from many matches, Yoka-Bakole fight postponed or even European rugby disrupted: the surge of Covid-19 contaminations caused by the Omicron variant plunges the world of sport into doubt, as 2022 approaches .


Basketball

NBA: Ten regular season games have been postponed, including the most recent between the San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat scheduled for Wednesday.

27 out of 30 teams are facing cases of Covid-19 in their ranks according to the league's latest assessment.

Euroleague: the Milan-Kaunas match scheduled for Wednesday, December 29, as well as the Asvel-Munich, Real-Fenerbahçe, Olympiakos-CSKA Moscow, Milan-Berlin matches scheduled for Thursday, December 30, have been suspended, due to Covid cases -19 among the players.

Soccer

Premier League: 16 English Championship matches have been postponed in total since December 9, including three of the nine scheduled for the traditional Boxing Day, December 26.

Italy: The Serie A Udinese-Salernitana match scheduled for Tuesday, December 21 in the first division has been postponed, as has the one of December 19 between Monza and Benevento in Serie B, which was the first postponement of the season for the top Italian level.

Europa League Conference: the Rennes-Tottenham confrontation scheduled for Thursday, December 9 has been canceled due to cases of Covid-19 within the English team (Rennes 3-0 victory on the green carpet).

Handball

Golden League: The game between Denmark and Egypt scheduled for January 9 has been canceled.

Denmark and Norway will not be making the trip to France for the friendly tournament which is due to be held January 7-9.

Ice Hockey

NHL: 70 North American Championship games have been postponed.

NHL players will not be making their way to the Beijing Games, with franchises keen to take advantage of this period (February 6-22) to catch up on late matches.

U-20 World Championships: The 2022 edition in Canada has been stopped, the international federation said, after a third match in the competition had to be canceled.

Cricket

The series of test matches between the United States and Ireland scheduled to take place in the United States was called off at the end of December.

Winter Olympics

The Beijing Olympics (February 4-20, 2022) will take place in front of an exclusively Chinese audience, with foreign spectators being excluded from the event.

Rugby

European Cups: the seven Franco-British matches scheduled for December 18 and 19 in the two European Rugby Cups have been postponed due to travel restrictions between France and Great Britain, in addition to the Bristol clash -Llanelli.

British Championship: Newcastle-Sale has been canceled due to numerous cases of Covid-19 among the Sharks.

FA Cup: the poster between Bath and Exeter, scheduled for December 29, has been canceled as the Bath club cannot field enough capable players.

French Championship: four matches scheduled for December 26 and 27 have been postponed.

Source: lefigaro

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