After the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the new coronavirus epidemic as a global “pandemic” on 11th local time, it seems that the entire international sports world is not good either.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 12 (reporter Li Li, Zhang Yifei, Wang qinou) following the announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11th local time that the new coronavirus epidemic was a global “pandemic, it seems that the whole international sports world is not good either. Serie A Juventus player lugani was infected with the new Crown virus, and the team will be isolated; After a player of Utah Jazz was diagnosed, the US league basketball (NBA) quickly announced that the season was suspended; as for the cancellation of events such as the flower skating world championship, it is simply not news.
On the 11th, the first news came that Juve had a player winning the game. The 25-year-old central defender lugani became the first publicly confirmed player in Serie A and the five major European leagues. Juve said in a statement that lugani was positive in the new coronavirus test and had no symptoms at present. The team will start the whole team isolation process according to regulations. However, the number one player in the team, Ronaldo, has returned to his hometown Portugal to visit his mother in hospital a few days ago. Juwen revealed that Ronaldo would stay in his hometown.
As the country with the most serious epidemic in Europe, Italy has implemented “city sealing” nationwide, and all sports events such as Serie A have been suspended.
Coincidentally. An NBA Utah Jazz player was also initially diagnosed with the new Crown virus. The League decided to suspend the game of this season from the 12th. When to resume the game will be notified. Neither NBA nor jazz revealed the player’s name, but some media reported that the infected player was French center Gobel.
Before, NBA and teams were more inclined to play “empty”. However, after the confirmed cases of players appeared, the league directly pressed the pause button.
Uefa also failed to hold it. On the same day, they announced that the Uefa Europa Cup 1/8 final against hertafe and Rome on the 12th will be postponed. After all flights between Spain and Italy were canceled, hertafe and Rome had made it clear that they would not go away due to the epidemic and traffic problems. This is the first time that the European Football League postponed its competition due to the epidemic.
However, the two 1/8 finals of the Champions League on the 11th insisted on fighting as scheduled. Among them, the game of beating Dortmund 2:0 at home of Paris Saint Germain was held at the request of the police. However, the Prince Park stadium was empty, however, thousands of cheering fans gathered outside the stadium, making the “empty field” take a form.
At present, in the five major league matches in European football, Serie A is directly suspended, and other league matches are constantly announced to postpone or empty.
More and more canceled events. The International Federation of skating announced on the 11th that the World Figure Skating Championships scheduled to be held in Montreal, Canada on March 16-22 had to be canceled. The International Gymnastics Federation declared that it would cancel the World Cup of Stuttgart station in Germany originally planned to be held on March 20-22 and postpone the events in Italy, Qatar and other places. The International Basketball Federation also claimed that all its games would be suspended from the 13th.
In this regard, the athletes expressed their understanding when they were lost. Sui Wenjing, the famous Chinese double slide general, said on Weibo: “I understand the cancellation of the competition very well and really hope everyone is healthy and safe. But I am really lost, but it’s okay. I will cry.”
And the Tokyo Olympic torch collection ceremony held at the ancient Olympia site in Greece on the 12th was also inevitably impacted. There was no on-site audience, the number of guests was reduced to 100, and the adjacent distance of the seats was more than one meter-this was the first time that the torch was collected without audience since the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984.
2020 is a sports year, but in the face of the epidemic, sports cannot be isolated. Compared with the current situation, whether the European football championships and Tokyo Olympic Games scheduled to start in June and July will be affected will be more influential. If the problem seemed to be alarmist at the beginning of the epidemic, it is now increasingly becoming a reality to be considered.
After all, the biggest competition facing the global sports world at this moment is anti-epidemic.