Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on sports events around the world

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on sports events around the world

(Reuters) - Major sports events around the world that are in the process of re-starting or have been rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic:

FOOTBALL

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-Major League Soccer players returned to voluntary training on May 6.

-The 2020 K-League season kicked off on May 8 behind closed doors.

-Euro 2020 and Copa America were postponed. The two tournaments will now be staged from June 11 to July 11, 2021.

-The Euro 2021 Women’s Championship has been pushed back to July 6-31, 2022.

-Asian Champions League: Matches involving Chinese clubs Guangzhou Evergrande, Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai SIPG were postponed. The start of the knockout rounds was moved back to September.

-The Chinese Football Association (CFA) has drawn up three plans to complete the 2020 Chinese Super League (CSL) season, one of which would see the campaign begin in late June and finish in December.

-Faroe Islands’ top-flight league will kick off on May 9.

OLYMPICS

-The postponed Tokyo Olympic Games will now begin on July 23, 2021 and run until Aug. 8.

-World Athletics has suspended Olympic qualification until December.

PARALYMPICS

The postponed Paralympic Games will run from Aug. 24-Sep. 5, 2021.

WORLD BEACH GAMES

The 2021 World Beach Games were moved to 2023.

WORLD GAMES

-The 2021 World Games have been pushed back by a year to avoid clashing with the Olympics.

ATHLETICS

-The World Athletics Championships scheduled for 2021 in Eugene, Oregon have been moved to the summer of 2022 because of the Olympic Games rescheduling.

-The World Athletics Indoor Championships (Nanjing, March 13-15) were postponed to March 19-21, 2021.

-Boston Marathon organisers have postponed the race from April 20 to Sept. 14.

-The London Marathon which was due to take place on April 26 has been postponed to Oct. 4.

AUSTRALIAN RULES

-The Australian Football League (AFL) hopes to resume its season in June.

BADMINTON

-The Thomas and Uber Cup will be held from Oct. 3-11.

-The 2021 World Championships will begin in late November instead of August to avoid clashing with the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics.

BASEBALL

-The South Korean league started on May 5 without fans.

-Taiwan’s baseball season resumed in April behind closed doors.

BOXING

-Dillian Whyte’s heavyweight fight against Alexander Povetkin has been rescheduled for July 4.

CRICKET

-English cricket’s The Hundred, originally scheduled to begin on July 17, was pushed back to 2021.

CYCLING

-Giro d’Italia will begin on Oct. 3, while the Spanish Vuelta will be held from Oct. 20.

-Milan-Sanremo will be held on Aug. 8, Liege-Bastogne-Liege on Oct. 4, the Tour des Flandres on Oct. 18, Paris-Roubaix on Oct. 25 and the Tour of Lombardy on Oct. 31.

-The Tour de France that was due to be held from June 27-July 19 has been postponed to Aug. 29-Sept 20.

-The European Road Cycling Championships, scheduled for Sept. 9-13, have been postponed by a year.

GOLF

-Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson, Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff will take part in a $3 million charity skins match on May 17.

-Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning will compete in a charity match on May 24 at Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Florida.

-The Harding Park golf course which is scheduled to host the PGA Championship in August re-opened on May 4.

-The Masters at Augusta National Golf Club has been rescheduled for Nov. 12-15 from April 9-12.

-The PGA Championships at TPC Harding Park San Francisco, has been rescheduled for Aug. 6-9 from May 14-17.

-The U.S. Open at Winged Foot Golf Club, Mamaroneck, New York, was rescheduled to Sept. 17-20 from June 8-21.

-The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is hoping to get the 2020 season underway with the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational from July 15-18.

-The Women’s PGA Championship has been postponed from late June to Oct. 8-11.

HORSE RACING

-Racing in France will begin without spectators at ParisLongchamp on May 11.

-Horse racing resumed in Germany on May 7 with a limited number of races in front of empty stands in Hanover. Races were also scheduled for May 8 in Cologne.

-The Kentucky Derby, the first jewel in North American horse racing’s Triple Crown (May 2) was postponed to Sept. 5.

-Churchill Downs, the home of the Kentucky Derby, will open for spectator-free racing on May 16.

MOTOR SPORTS

-NASCAR said its season would resume on May 17 at the Darlington Raceway in South Carolina.

-The Le Mans 24 hours race was postponed from June 13-14 to Sept. 19-20.

-The Indianapolis 500 has been postponed until Aug. 23.

-MotoGP intends to start its season with races on July 19 and 26 at the Jerez circuit in southern Spain.

-IndyCar will open its delayed season on June 6 with the Genesys 300 at Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) without fans in attendance.

-Formula One hopes to start the delayed season in Austria in July without spectators before ending in Abu Dhabi in December.

TENNIS

-The French Open was postponed until Sept. 20-Oct. 4.

-The women’s Rogers Cup tournament in Montreal was postponed until 2021.

-Professional tennis returned with the Tennis Point Exhibition Series event in Germany on May 1.

-A number of high-profile male and female players will compete in the UTR Pro Match Series in Florida starting May 8.

-Patrick Mouratoglou’s tennis academy in France will host a five-week series in May.

ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP

-The UFC will stage three events in the space of a week beginning with UFC 249 on May 9 followed by two cards on May 13 and May 16.